Sex education ≠ "Handing out condoms"
The debate is about weather or not we should teach our kids how all those parts down there work, or just tell them not to use them for anything but peeing and pooping.
How, in any way, does it hurt for the school to teach kids how their bodies work?
This is why I don't agree with not doing something because of potential goods things that could come of it...
There is potential good in almost every action. Maybe we shouldn't have fought the nazis because one of the soldiers might have invented a form of free energy. Maybe our founding fathers shouldn't have fought for our freedom because they might have been great poets. Maybe you should go out and rape and impregnate as many girls as you can because someone influential might pop out. No, The slightest potential for good things to happen should not be our guiding light.
Way too much. I can't go anywhere without companies trying to brainwash me. How much uglier is the countryside now that most of it is covered with billboards with pictures of fast food on them. This is also another way for big companies to stay on top and keep small businesses struggling.
Whats so wrong with questioning the quality of others beliefs? I live in a democracy. In a democracy, the majority is supposed to be making the decisions. It is my DUTY as a citizen of a democracy to try and spread the ideals I believe are correct to the people. In order to do that, I have to make people question themselves. I have to make people think.
I know there are A LOT of people out there following the same religions. Are they all completely wrong? ...Maybe, maybe. I'm open to debate, Are they?
Everything you DO, is shaped by the benefit you may get by doing it, yes. Not everything you believe.
I just don't understand how anyone can truly believe, given the world around us. I obviously don't believe, so I can't come up with what would be a good answer. An example of a reason to believe though, I'd imagine, would sound like...
"I saw a vision one day and Jesus told me to believe" or "My mom was in a car crash and I prayed and she got better" or "My uncle Ahmed had a near death experience, and when he regained consciousness, he said he saw 50 virgins waiting for him.
I don't think these are good reasons, but they are reasons, not benefits.
Your the only one that answered my question properly Joe. Thank you. That doesn't mean I agree with it though.
Belief, for the fear/hope that it is true, is impossible. There are a lot of religions out there. You can't use this method with all of them because christianity says that you can have no other gods, as many other religions do.
I've heard preachers and reverends say that this is the, "Insurance policy believers" and that," God will know who truly believes when their time comes".
The fear of a story being true, in my opinion, is not a good reason to believe, because I would be too worried about many different conflicting stories of fiction, that I could never appease, if that were my method of discerning facts.
