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what I'm hearing you say is that you believe young people should be engaged in unprotected sex.

That has life-changing consequences, and yet here you are waxing on about the morality of placing a leash on a dog.

Are you sure the issue isn't that you dislike people?




The issue is you're not hearing what i'm saying

Imagine for a moment a person like you, with your impulse to constrain and regulate, was in charge of you

Imagine they did not agree with how you should live your life

What then, would you say to them?

For any issue they wil have their data about marginal changes to safety

You want to do X? why, 0.y% of times X happens, bad things happen!

this is a universal feature of life, and so any idiot can appeal to it

now what do you say to this overbearing regulator of your enjoyment? this person who denies you what you wish to do?

i cannot imagine you are so naive to suppose that what you enjoy is unimpeachably safe

i don't think you have anything to say

rather i read this line of thinking as just moral hypocrisy: you allow yourself to enjoy whatever it is you enjoy, despite these marginal risks -- but when you get no enjoyment from it --- Ah! well then it can be banned




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