(October 10, 2020 at 2:21 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: There seems to be some talk about what Todd Christofferson has said.
"Adultery, promiscuity, elective abortion, and out-of-wedlock births are but some of the bitter fruits that grow out of the immorality sanctioned by the sexual revolution"
----D. Todd Christofferson October 2020 LDS General Conference
I was talking to some mormons about this, whether it is a good idea to call out-of-wedlock births bitter fruits and the overall response is that yes, they are all bitter fruits because the statistics say that children from single parents are no good.
This troubles me because when you use statistics, you are putting a lot of people, a lot of good people (single mothers, single fathers, homosexual men and so on) in the same group and labelling them as defective.
Couldn’t statistics be used to label other groups as well.
For example, I was talking to a person who was against homosexuals. His reason is that the rate of suicide with homosexuals is high, therefore, homosexuality is not a good thing.
Are you aware of any other statistics that labels people? Perhaps, statistics that allows for gender discrimination, sexual discrimination, racial discrimination?
"there are lies, damned lies and statistics"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damn...7s%20point.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
