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To: butterdezillion

generally, yes to most if not all of that.

i would add that the modern urban black situation does not seem to me to be caused by indiscriminate sex so much as it is caused by loss of a sense of responsibility in general, which simply spills over into sex as well as to most other aspects of life.

i would not be surprised if society never arrives at absolutes for dealing with sex. attitutes towards sex have changed from the stone age, to the agrarian age, to the iron age, and in more modern times before the so-called sexual revolution. that is, the sexual revolution of the 1960s can be regarded as only the latest of several sexual revolutions. before then was the womens’ emancipation and the roaring 20s. since then there has been gay rights. there seem to be more sexual revolutions on the horizon. each of these revolutions to some degree reveal inadequacies of previous social attitudes and conventions, or else the revolutions would sputter and die. and occasionally the pendulum perhaps swings too far. given all that, i think that the less uptight we are about sex, and the more open and flexible about it, the less hangups we propagate to future generations. in particular, conventional one-man-one-woman marriage seems highly optimized for permitting coexistence and avoiding strife in agrarian working class society. that situation is long gone and far away from today’s urban, post-industrial society(*). Technology has evolved to the point where we now have several means of birth control which are readily available in most cases. To be realistic, I think, is to consider the possibility that in regards to institutions for sexual relationships, one size may not fit all.

(*) if you live in a rural area, obviously, your experiences and your needs will differ from that of the hipster urban dweller, and vice versa. the libertarian approach would be to permissive in regards to the type of relationships that each person wishes to enter into with other people in each area.


386 posted on 10/20/2014 2:54:47 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: SteveH

The urban areas have been the centers of nearly all the biq problems that threaten the existence of the US. Seems like what you’re sayinq is that urban populations are incapable of beinq anythinq but qovernment-supported moochers and ferals, sustaininq their “lifestyle” on the backs of the rural people who still believe in families that provide for their own. Is that what you’re sayinq?


387 posted on 10/20/2014 6:44:31 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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