2013-07-22, 07:58 PM
Takebacker Wrote:That's what optional means.
Dude you're trying to generalize an argument that's about the specific differences between types of options. Opt-in programs for situations like these are idiotic and reprehensible as they limit personal freedoms and require additional effort to merely regain them, when it should be the other way around - as Razmos has stressed.
God this whole thing is just so stupid and illogical. Excellent counterarguments:
- "But the worst of all possible worlds is one in which the prime minister announces he has solved the problem when he's only pretending to have brushed it under the carpet."
- Everything Razmos said about applying a band-aid solution like this to a festering wound that requires the time and efficacy of sweeping comprehensive sex education reform and open discourse of sex and sexuality to treat
- Bouncing off this first bullet: that people will STILL ACCESS IT some way or another, and as such it exists in some mystic, exclusive state that increases people's desire to obtain it
- Enables parents to be lazy and oblivious, as they don't have to actively ensure parental firewalls/blocks if they don't want something
- Lets the government decide what's "morally acceptable" for its population. Again, this is qualified with the "everything within reason" tag, but still
And on and on.