Okay, I'm going to interact with your opinion: it's based on a mountain of lies and fallacies and that's why you're being downvoted.
> There used to be a time when we as a society valued things like self-control, discipline, and tradition. No more.
Is that also the time when people died from rubella and mumps, or when women weren't allowed to vote? Usually an appeal to a bygone era is a secret yearning to go back to a time when the holder of that view had more power over others who now have equality.
> What you are alluding to here is a world where we are ruled by our emotions and our basest desires without the fear or potential for having to deal with our actions.
Yeah, because humans /never/ let themselves get ruled by emotions for the first ~100,000 years of history. /s
> To divorce set from children is to misunderstand intimacy, the family, and the entire underpinning of our society.
And yet, I (a man) had some lovely martinis with my poly boyfriend last night before falling asleep with him. Today, I'm being productive and contributing money to our gorgeous house, and contributing to both my local economy and my various levels of government by paying a decent portion in taxes. Tonight I think I'll spend time with friends and our lives will all be that much better for spending time together.
But please, tell me more about how my lack of child-bearing sex is ruining society.
> Usually an appeal to a bygone era is a secret yearning to go back to a time when the holder of that view had more power over others who now have equality.
I don't agree with the GP at all, but I think you're reading something that just isn't there.
> There used to be a time when we as a society valued things like self-control, discipline, and tradition. No more.
Is that also the time when people died from rubella and mumps, or when women weren't allowed to vote? Usually an appeal to a bygone era is a secret yearning to go back to a time when the holder of that view had more power over others who now have equality.
> What you are alluding to here is a world where we are ruled by our emotions and our basest desires without the fear or potential for having to deal with our actions.
Yeah, because humans /never/ let themselves get ruled by emotions for the first ~100,000 years of history. /s
> To divorce set from children is to misunderstand intimacy, the family, and the entire underpinning of our society.
And yet, I (a man) had some lovely martinis with my poly boyfriend last night before falling asleep with him. Today, I'm being productive and contributing money to our gorgeous house, and contributing to both my local economy and my various levels of government by paying a decent portion in taxes. Tonight I think I'll spend time with friends and our lives will all be that much better for spending time together.
But please, tell me more about how my lack of child-bearing sex is ruining society.