Since it is implicated in oral cancer and my insurance premiums rise as a result, that may be a good idea, or a risk pool created… Another way is to reward good health practices by reduced premiums.
Yes, he did lie, big time. ABC has caused a rise in abortions that become backup birth control. You are right on.
And frequent masturbation reduces the risk of prostrate cancer: https://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/does-frequent-ejaculation-help-ward-off-prostate-cancerBradskii:
Since it is implicated in oral cancer and my insurance premiums rise as a result, that may be a good idea, or a risk pool created… Another way is to reward good health practices by reduced premiums.
The point is that risky behaviors cost all of us.
Years ago, private behavior had much less effect on the living costs of others.
I don’t know. Why should I? Since all I was talking about was the issue of what reference point we need to use for our foundation for our moral issues in society to guide us in creating laws, specific issues on how to apply that are a separate conversation. I’m just going to stay on that issue since that was what this thread is about and not going to derail it with side conversations that branch out from that point.
We discover that we don’t all agree on how to move forward about specific topics that apply to human well-being, but we all seem to agree that human well-being is the most universal target to apply our moral reference point to for our laws of society. I am just pointing out that the reference point of your favorite book is not universal to everyone as a moral compass for societies to reference their laws to, but human well-being is.
No, no I am not going to rule out teaching X over Y because you seem to imply that disagreement on how to move forward from the most common reference point is the same thing as disagreeing over what the most common reference point is. As to teaching X over Y, that is a separate issue because X over Y in reference to the point of what reality has presented, the science community has presented as what justifies current understanding of what reality is. This supersedes cultural myths and legends of their version of reality because that, again, is just like the favorite book analogy. Your favorite cultural myths and legends about reality may not be someone else’s favorite cultural myths or legends about reality. However, science doesn’t care about which cultural myths and legends about reality is correct, they care if the predictive model about reality actually matches reality. So if culture A or B has a correct model, science will present that as the best current model so far. Also, if all the cultural myths and legends don’t match the predictive models that science has discovered about reality, they will use those models over people bemoaning their cultural myths and legends not being taught in the science classes but in the anthropology classes.
Is it just me, or is everyone really tired of the last 30 years of this type of conversation? Stop ginning up the conflict of this conversation into more than it needs to be. It’s just a discussion, not a Fox News panel where everyone cares about having the last word, the loudest voice, and scoring points instead of actually looking at the conversation to see where it leads instead of just painting the bulls-eye around your preconceived conclusions.
So you’re okay with child brides for religious freedom? You’re okay with genital mutilation as religious branding for religious freedom? Sorry but there are other things we hold more valuable that your personal religious freedom. Anything you want to do to express your personal beliefs are fine AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT INFRINGE ON OTHER PEOPLE. You are not to use the excuse of religious freedom to harrass anyone else. You can do all the genital mutilation to yourself but not to anyone else. You are not to marry off your child to your pedophile uncle or cousin. You are not to teach magic in science classes. and so on and so on. Hug your favorite toy to your chest all you want. Go find other people that willingly enjoy getting together to hug your favorite toy. But don’t you dare force that upon anyone else that either can not say no and/or can say no but is irrelevant to your ability to continue abusing them under the idea of my child, my freedom to abuse in my own special cultural way.
That’s because we live in “United States.” There is a concept of state sovereignty that been diminished over the years.
Do you think anything has ever happened that was not “inevitable”?
We “only” disagree what is “human” and what is “well-being”.
You made the dumb comment.