RobbyPants wrote:I don't see anyone here touting the virtues of irresponsibility.
While that may be true there are however SOME irresponsibilities we SHOULD tout.
Like recreational sex. Every time a woman does it she MIGHT end up pregnant. Even with the most sensible, reasonable, responsible, even paranoid of contraceptive measures there is a small measurable chance of pregnancy.
And while individually people don't have all that much sex that ALL of them eventually fall into the tiny margin of accidental pregnancies... collectively society as a whole has
a whole fucking lot of recreational sex and the small percentage once applied to society as a whole of accidental pregnancies DESPITE very "responsible" precautions... ends up with
a whole fucking lot of unwanted pregnancies.
Now we have a number of ways we could deal with it. Society HAS chosen the one they want they like...
Option A) Society likes lots of recreational sex, and when contraception fails reasonable, safe, and perfectly ethical options including abortion are available. The alternative's of both unwanted pregnancies OR
much less recreational sex are BOTH abominations in the eyes of society and rightly so.
Tzor however wants either...
Option B) Society changes it's mind and decides to keep the lots and lots of recreational sex but NOT eliminate any unwanted pregnancies that slip through the contraception net (that Tzor also wants to weaken at the same time). This results in the torture of countless women forced to bear children to term, rusty coat hanger deaths in countless numbers, and orphans and poverty stricken unwanted children in similar vast numbers. Because when you multiply "a tiny chance" by "all of society doing it all the time" you get very big numbers.
Or his probable preference...
Option C) Society abandons all that recreational sex. Yeah. Really...
And so yes. There is the virtue of irresponsibility, if you can call the very small chance of the accidental pregnancy with contraception "irresponsible" which Tzor and co regularly DO. And I for one "tout" the general availability of lots of recreational sex for everyone as a virtue we should all be proud of and should fight to protect.