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Just out of curiosity, do you know how much alcohol is needed before you have your perceptions sufficiently skewed to make bad judgements? Anyone who knows their limits tends to avoid it, unless you go out with the specific purpose of getting utterly whacked. And you only learn your limits through trial and error.
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And if you do it for the purpose of getting utterly whacked, chances are you ALREADY have bad judgement.
As for sex. I agree, don't do it unless you're willing to accept all the potential consequences. I'm lucky, in a sad way. My gf can't get pregnant, so it's not a worry for us. (Of course, someday, we might wish she could...)
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Daryus: I hate to say this, but that's not a very good arguement. One could also say that, if you put a loaded gun to your head, you don't know how far you can pull the trigger in w/o killing yourself, unless you use trial-and-error.
Trial-and-error isn't a good idea when the error part tends to result in bodily harm...
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Er, it's a nice argument and all Tim, but it does tend to avoid mentioning those little things called condoms. And the pill, for that matter.
And I'm still not sure how it endagers peoples lives.
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Well, honestly, the disease part doesn't bother me. All the idiots can go AIDS themselves out of existence, for all I care. More space on the planet for me...
As far as "endangering lives" goes, I'm not talking about people dying. I'm talking about, if you go around having sex whenever you like, the odds are unacceptably high (hell, I'd probably call any chance at all unacceptable) that you and the other person will end up w/ a kid that neither one of you wanted. It's that life that you're jeopardizing. Not in a physical harm sense, but just in the fact that, if you aren't willing or prepared to have that child, his/her quality of life isn't going to be what it should.
And if anyone even dares to seriously suggest abortion as a solution to that problem, I swear I'm leaving this discussion...
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"Well, honestly, the disease part doesn't bother me. All the idiots can go AIDS themselves out of existence, for all I care. More space on the planet for me..."
Well, ultimately, I'd rather see fewer public health risks.
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Okay, so say you're 21, go out a lot, and on average sleep with a girl once a fortnight.
Now, say you're 21, you're going out with someone who you've been ogin out with for 6 months. It's going fine, neither of you have the slightest thoughts about commitment, as you're both too young. You're having sex about 3 times a week.
How's the first oe worse? Or should you not have sex even in a steady relationship unless you want to have a kid?
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Unfortunately, while a risk-free life is possible, risk-free pleasures are few and far between. I can't have sex without some risk of either disease or pregnancy, however minor. (Or injury, for that matter. The elaboration of which I leave as an exercise for the purient minded.) I can't have another piece of chocolate cake without the risk of turning my heart into a hideous mass of fatty goo. I can't drive without the risk of being smashed underneath the bulk of some inattentive driver's truck.
But is a risk-free life really worth living? Is it worth never falling in love to protect myself from a broken heart?
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That's my experience. Granted, my experience is very limited, but it's pretty much sucked so far.
Anyway, back to the problem at hand... Yes, Liam, I am saying you shouldn't have sex unless you're prepared and willing to have a child. Basically, the whole premise boils down to reckless disregard for the possible negative consequences of your actions on others. That's what I have a problem with.
Bear in mind, of course, that I specified that this only applies to cases where there actually is the possibility of pregnancy. If you want to go sleep around, feel free to have a vasectomy, or something to that effect. Or you could turn gay. That's always an option... *LOL*
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Everyone here must immediately go out and purchase the album "69 Love Songs" by The Magnetic Fields. This isn't a request, it's an order. Simply must.
Because I'm silly that way, their song "Love is Like a Bottle of Gin":
It makes you blind, it does you in It makes you think you're pretty tough It makes you prone to crime and sin It makes you say things off the cuff It's very small and made of glass and grossly overadvertised It turns a genius to an ass and makes a fool think he is wise It could make you regret your birth or turn cartwheels in your best suit It costs a lot more than it's worth and yet there is no substitute They keep it on a higher shelf the older and more pure it grows It has no color in itself but it can make you see rainbows You can find it on the Bowery or you can find it at Elaine's It makes your words more flowery It makes the sun shine, makes it rain You just get out what they put in and they never put in enough Love is like a bottle of gin But a bottle of gin is not like love
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