Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Originally posted by: Lucky
Don't be stupid, 15 year old's know plain and simple the risks and consequences of sex.
Sheesh... You really believe that, don't you?
Sigh...
(walks out of this conversation...)
I just like the complete lack of willingness to even look at other points of view. "I'm going to be completely dogmatic about this: 15 year olds simply CAN NOT do this and that because I say so...and if you argue, I'm going to walk away".
Say what you will, when I was 15, I knew all about sex, biologically and otherwise. I
did not have a clue about the emotional effects that it has on women, and the effects it has on relationships and some of the other social effects it can have, but hey, I got a news flash for you: MOST GUYS, REGARDLESS OF AGE, don't know about that stuff either.
So, your opinion on whether or not 15 year olds can or should be able to consent to sex doesn't particualrly interest me. It's your opinion. If you pay your taxes, I guess you're entitled to it.
What does interest me (and scare me, to be honest) is the fact that everyone seems to be so downright dogmatic. I'm a very inteligent person. I have opinions. I look at other people's opinions with a healthy dose of skepticism. But I never put forth my opinion in a "this is the way it is and I'm right and if you don't see it you're wrong" type manner. To do so goes against the notion that your opinions are based on logic and fact (and yes yes, I know the whole idea of "well, my ideas are
so based in logic and fact that I simply
can flaunt them like that, because I
know I'm right". But that's being circular).
Anyway, this is just a long-winded way of saying that what scares me is not the fact that people have moronic opinions. You wouldn't get very far in life if that tripped you out. What scares me is
how those people have those opinions.
Although it's just a facesless BBS.
They breed that sort of thing.
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