Yeah, I think it's one of the most awesome things about America.
I think I made a slightly bad analogy with regards to the Livejournal thing. The main point I wanted to make is that sex isn't safe and we can't make it that way, no matter how much people want it to be or believe it should be. (Yes, it's David Hume's is/ought problem yet again.)
It's not even a concern that people would start boning whoever the hell they want with merry abandon. It's just the fact that consequence-free sex is just not a sane thing to strive for at this point in history. Maybe in 30-50 years time. But right now it's as daft as asking for a light bulb in every house only 20 years after the carbon-filament light bulb was invented. The technology is still expensive and immature.
Many people fail to realise that just because a thing can be done with technology, does not mean the technology is mature enough to be used widely. To go with the food/shelter/clothing thing, the mass-production techniques which made cheap and ubiquitous food and shelter have been with us for more than a century. But the point is it's taken this long for them to mature to the point where they can operate as well as they do.
Contraception is still a new and immature technology and not enough people appreciate this. Just because a technology is widespread and commercialised does not mean it is mature. It just means they've become economically viable to mass-produce and safe enough to be used outside of a tightly controlled experimental environment. Computers are widespread but they are a hellaciously immature technology.
And immature technologies are unreliable. (They're often unsafe, too)
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Date: 2007-07-03 04:29 pm (UTC)I think I made a slightly bad analogy with regards to the Livejournal thing. The main point I wanted to make is that sex isn't safe and we can't make it that way, no matter how much people want it to be or believe it should be. (Yes, it's David Hume's is/ought problem yet again.)
It's not even a concern that people would start boning whoever the hell they want with merry abandon. It's just the fact that consequence-free sex is just not a sane thing to strive for at this point in history. Maybe in 30-50 years time. But right now it's as daft as asking for a light bulb in every house only 20 years after the carbon-filament light bulb was invented. The technology is still expensive and immature.
Many people fail to realise that just because a thing can be done with technology, does not mean the technology is mature enough to be used widely. To go with the food/shelter/clothing thing, the mass-production techniques which made cheap and ubiquitous food and shelter have been with us for more than a century. But the point is it's taken this long for them to mature to the point where they can operate as well as they do.
Contraception is still a new and immature technology and not enough people appreciate this. Just because a technology is widespread and commercialised does not mean it is mature. It just means they've become economically viable to mass-produce and safe enough to be used outside of a tightly controlled experimental environment. Computers are widespread but they are a hellaciously immature technology.
And immature technologies are unreliable. (They're often unsafe, too)