Quote:Enlightened self interest is the answer here again. If your government supports aid to other contries that reduces the amount of suffering in the world. Less suffering equals less desperation. Less desperation equals less hatred. Less hatred equals less violence.
Then why do they need the goverment to do it for them? All a goverment is an organization that is supposed to look out for it's people right?
It is in the best interests of everyone on this planet to help each other out. The problem with the current American administration is that they exist to help out only themselves and the powerbrokers that got them into office. Some of those powerbrokers are religious dickheads with an agenda that encourages blatent idiocy.
Quote:The very fact, the very fact that you would equate rape. RAPE! That you would equate rape with sex with a condom is... its abhorrent. I have no idea what the hell kind of right wing brain worm argument you are making but stop it. Stop it now. You are...
The point is that while the majority of rape is hate related
there is a minority that is just biological urge. Drugged
rape in particular seem to fit this pattern.
Note that the reason is irrelevant as far as punishment
for a rape goes but if you beleive sex is just a natural
biological urge then certain types of rapes are the
same thing. Which in my opinion is Ridiculous.
The fact is that abistinence education does not work. It does not work. It doens't work. It fails to work. It does not prevent the psread of disease. It has failed to do so. It does not work. It fails. Work, it does not. Have I repeated this enough to get that tyhrough you goddamn fucking thick skull?
It does not work.
Condoms do. They noticeably slow the spread of disease. Period.
So your argument is either we only use methods if they are 100% effective 100% of the time? Fuck you. That isn't how modern medicine, and modern virology, work. It isn't.
Shut up.
And damn you do not compare this or anything else to fucking RAPE again. Just do NOT.
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For someone who doesn't know faith this is right. For those
that teach it and live by example though it's hypocresy(?)
A religious missionary in Africa in your view should say:
"My beleifs mean nothing. here, have some rubbers. "
If their beleifs are nothing then they wouldn't be there in
the first place. So who would fill the void?
You mean who would spread the banner of ignorance, intolerance and tribalism if not for Missionaries and their cultural war? I hope noone. I hope noone picks up the torch of trying to convert the people of Africa to religion.
Do you mean who would supply Africa with medical, argiculutral and other forms of aid? There are plenty of secular organizations that can do just that. If all the money currenly being used to support the Christina's Children Fund went to UNICEF instead I would be a happy man. I don't think international aid should come with religious strings attached.
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