Reapsta, I would love there to be an actually good reason behind it. Unless proven otherwise, out of history I just have to assume that this is pandering to right-wing parents who don't appreciate their kids disagreeing with them.
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It's not a matter of whether the reason is good or not. I'm inclined to believe that they're not just wrong, but dangerously wrong.
It's also irrelevant. You CANNOT simply dismiss, ridicule, and blow off nearly half the country's electorate and not expect them to be enraged. You're all doing it in this thread and then saying it's the Republicans' fault for having a completely natural reaction.
By talking about what's right and what's wrong, you're falling into the same intellectual limitations the Republicans are. Abstinence only education is what god would want, so it's right. No thinking required. You're saying "The Republicans are acting like idiots, so they must be wrong" and doing the same thing.
Do you think that if you ignore them they'll just go away? That's what the Republicans tried with the Democrats during Bush's presidency, and they paid for it in 2006 and 2008.
Show me some Democrats that are advocating "Abstinence Only" I won't hold my breath while you look.
I can do this too:
Show me some Republicans who believe in "animal rights." Show me some Republicans who believe that Global Warming will cause the apocalypse. Show me some Republicans who are advocating legalized partial-birth abortion.
My opinion: Ignorance
Human motivation doesn't work that way. It's about your feelings wanting you to achieve a certain thing.
What's going on emotionally, below all the yelling?
Not sure that's all too relevant. They can talk to a shrink or something, meanwhile, they need to smarten the fuck up. Children are giving birth to children because of this stupidity. I know because most of my wife's family are (wait for it) Republicans.....and they ALL have kids who are under 18 years of age who have become pregnant. And wanna guess why? Because they go to church where they are taught that abstinence is the only solution to birth control. It's fucking absurd.
I'm not going to talk about your personal circumstances because I don't know about them. They sound awful though.
It's not because they're Republicans though. That's the symptom. What's the underlying cause?
What's the solution.
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Genius.
How is this best solved?
Teach young teenagers that abstinence is the best solution but condoms are also helpful. It's not that difficult.
Right. But how do we get there?
Why does no one here seem to care?
Plenty of people care. They're typically called liberals, progressives and/or Democrats or some combination thereof.
So you're saying the Republicans who are screaming about this until they're red in the face don't care? They're wrong, but lack of caring certainly isn't the issue.
You can draw a line directly from the number of incarcerated people in the US to our refusal to treat the underlying causes of the crimes they commit that put them there.
Interesting. You seem to think that you can't properly deal with criminals unless you properly address why they're committing crimes. But with the Republicans, who generally aren't committing robbery, rape, assault, etc., you want them to just change their minds because they're wrong.
At this point, I simply don't take the GOP seriously enough to ask and/or answer these questions. I know that I should, but I can't bring myself to. It's at the point now, for better or for worse (probably for worse), that I read stories like these and my human nature makes me shrug and move on.
Aaannnndddd there it is. They know you don't take them seriously, and that's why they're pissed. When the GOP returns to power (they will, if not during this election) they will remember how they were treated and act accordingly. And we'll all be screwed.
The solution is to stop the condescension now.
This is why I mentioned to Reapsta that imprisonment should be expensive. We've turned it into a profitable endeavor, and the results are horrifying.
Private prisons are one of the worst ideas ever.
I say we do it like Norway, jailing criminals in peaceful and relaxing homes.
Please. I'd rob a bank tomorrow if that were my "punishment."