Who Wants To Be My Pen Pal?

I love Twitter. It exposes me to dozens of new things each day, either through the 140-character-or-less tidbits or linkage to other sites. However, I often shy away from serious and/or controversial discussions because (a) I don't always want just anyone responding to my ideas, (b) it's easy to misrepresent your position, or misunderstand someone else's, when the thoughts are short and responses rapid, and (c) it can feel a bit pointless at times. I'm sure much real world, actual change has come out of Twitter conversions, but in my experience it takes more extended discussion to get anywhere.

And so I'd like to exchange letters with some of you. No, I don't mean email. I mean the good old-fashioned letters you have to put a stamp on and wait a couple days for it to reach the recipient. "How is this better than email?" would be a very reasonable question for you to ask right now. It's my hypothesis that sitting down with a piece of paper allows for a kind of thinking that's hard to replicate when you're in front of a screen. It requires more forethought when copy/cut/paste isn't an option. There's less of an urge to skim and get distracted. Hopefully this allows for a more thoughtful and fruitful exchange of ideas. And it's fun to get real mail, right? I think it's a hypothesis worth testing.

I'm imagining the letters to be focused on a single topic, though I don't want to impose too many rules, especially at the beginning. Here are some topics I've been thinking about lately and would like to exchange letters on, but I'm open to all sorts of subjects:

1) Is health care a human right? Do people have a moral obligation to maintain their own health?
2) Is style/aesthetics indulgent? How much good does it add to the world? Are things better if they're homemade, or produced by more efficient, industrial systems?
3) Is there a suitable framework outside of organized religion and academic philosophy to structure a personal system of morality? (Inspiration = current situation in Haiti, global poverty).
4) What's the best way to effect lifestyle changes in other people? (Or: How do you get other people to do what you want them to do? I'd really like to exchange letters with Oprah on this one.)

So...who's in?