(May 6, 2015 at 10:07 am)Alex K Wrote:(May 6, 2015 at 10:05 am)Chad32 Wrote: By law you must wear seat belts, despite them not being 100% effective. Yet they want to argue against condoms and the pill partly because they aren't 100% effective.
Recommending the use of condoms would be too much of an official endorsement of promiscuous sex. Driving itself is not discouraged, that's the difference.
I realize that that is the way some idiots view the issue, but the reality is, teaching people about what condoms do is not the same as suggesting that people use them.
They confuse education (about facts) with motivations. Teaching someone what a condom is and what it does, is not the source of sexual desire. This should be perfectly obvious to any thinking person. And I am pretty sure that it is. I was raised in a very religious family, and my mother did not object to me taking a proper sex education class. Learning about venereal diseases and how one can contract them, as well as how to avoid them, does not motivate someone to have sex.
The motivation for sex is there without any education. Only a moron fails to realize that.
(As an aside, your understanding of American society seems very accurate, which is not surprising for someone who went to high school in the U.S. Why you would so such a thing is a bit of a mystery, but it fits with your accurate knowledge of America.)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
