This vision of positive reproductive rights seems as daft to me and seems to miss the point that freedom isn't free. If actions don't have any costs associated with them, then a valuable metric by which decisions can be made is lost.
Myspace and Livejournal, for instance are examples of taking positive freedoms to freedom of the press. Fandom/slashfic purges aside, for the most part, we can say whatever crazy stuff we want on LJ and it doesn't cost us a thing.
And the result?...99% of it is total bollocks! Because if there's no cost associated with putting whatever we want online, the only cost is our time and effort, which clearly people generally try to minimise.
When there's an actual monetary cost associated with publishing, people normally bother with things like proofreading and editing.
I am by no means a prude, but trying to turn sex and procreation into a harmless recreational activity is an insane goal, at least with today's technology. Sexual revolution or not, we do not control sex and what results from it in any reliable fashion. How can we make safe sex and babies-on-demand a right when that's simply beyond our present technological capacity, regardless of how many tax dollars are thrown at it?
Sex is fun, but comes with a risk of ruining your ruining your health or your finances. But the same can be said about driving cars really fast, or getting addicted to World of Warcraft. Just about everything fun comes with risks and costs and while helping people to make decisions which maximise fun while minimising risk and cost is certainly a good thing, people who want the government to absorb the risk and cost just don't make sense to me.
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Date: 2007-07-03 03:45 pm (UTC)This vision of positive reproductive rights seems as daft to me and seems to miss the point that freedom isn't free. If actions don't have any costs associated with them, then a valuable metric by which decisions can be made is lost.
Myspace and Livejournal, for instance are examples of taking positive freedoms to freedom of the press. Fandom/slashfic purges aside, for the most part, we can say whatever crazy stuff we want on LJ and it doesn't cost us a thing.
And the result?...99% of it is total bollocks! Because if there's no cost associated with putting whatever we want online, the only cost is our time and effort, which clearly people generally try to minimise.
When there's an actual monetary cost associated with publishing, people normally bother with things like proofreading and editing.
I am by no means a prude, but trying to turn sex and procreation into a harmless recreational activity is an insane goal, at least with today's technology. Sexual revolution or not, we do not control sex and what results from it in any reliable fashion. How can we make safe sex and babies-on-demand a right when that's simply beyond our present technological capacity, regardless of how many tax dollars are thrown at it?
Sex is fun, but comes with a risk of ruining your ruining your health or your finances. But the same can be said about driving cars really fast, or getting addicted to World of Warcraft. Just about everything fun comes with risks and costs and while helping people to make decisions which maximise fun while minimising risk and cost is certainly a good thing, people who want the government to absorb the risk and cost just don't make sense to me.