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To: TLBSHOW
The author is a raving loonie, & you aid his cause.
22 posted on 03/19/2002 7:35:05 AM PST by tpaine
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To: tpaine
How so? Have you ever been a promiscuous female?
72 posted on 03/19/2002 8:07:57 AM PST by stands2reason
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To: tpaine
The author is a raving loonie, & you aid his cause.

This comment says a lot more about you than it does about the article or his cause, and it ain't pretty.

Actually, Mr. Sabia missed an important insight here when he notes that the costs of sex have rapidly declined.

Libertarians often define morality in economic terms -- people will or won't do something because of the inherent costs/benefits of a particular course of action.

It's interesting to look at today's social problems through this lens. It explains a lot.

Traditional morality in this view is expensive, because it generally involves the rejection of an immediate pleasure in favor of some longer-term gain -- or sometimes even nothing at all.

Libertarian cries for normalization of various vices (and in this regard, Hollywood and the various media outlets are consummate libertarians) simply raises the perceived cost of moral behavior. Moreover, "the market" richly rewards those who best promote the pursuit of cheap and immediate pleasure.

And libertarians -- you, for instance -- tend to loudly denounce those who object to those market forces. It's enough to make one conclude that a truly libertarian society is inherently unstable.

101 posted on 03/19/2002 8:22:43 AM PST by r9etb
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To: tpaine
The author is a raving loonie, & you aid his cause.

Not really, and this has been going on for many years. I was a student at SUNY @ Stony Brook more than 10 years ago, and was the only person in my suite who had a "long distance relationship" with a girl back home. All 5 other guys in my suite participated in regular "hooking up" on thursday nights (the party night at Stony Brook) before heading home to girlfriends on the weekends. One of the guys managed to spread clymidia to 5 different women on campus, as well as his girlfriend! The fact that he managed to spread it around like that can be shown that not only was he something of a "pig," but the women were willing too.

Mark

159 posted on 03/19/2002 8:58:13 AM PST by MarkL
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To: tpaine
The author is a raving loonie, & you aid his cause. Is is so seldom that some one speaks for responsibility and decorum that you cannot recognize morality and wisdom even when you see it.

With conservatives like you, who needs Democrats?

386 posted on 03/19/2002 1:53:25 PM PST by TopQuark
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