Re:Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ev...
by munificent on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:17PM
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Nonsense.
Any discussion of the sexual revolution's effects on society that doesn't discuss birth control is completely irrelevant. Before birth control, premarital sex inextricably meant premarital children, which fundamentally alters the lifepath of the parent. With birth control, sex moves out of the realm of life-altering acts and into the realm of personal experiences.
This entire article is a conclusion desperately trying to cobble together a narrative that supports it while completely ignoring any evidence to the contrary.
> The swiftness with which rational thinking declined after the 1970’s is astounding. In its place arose post-modernism, characterized by “scepticism, subjectivism, or relativism” and “a general suspicion of reason”.
What could be more rational than skepticism and using the tools of reason to study reason itself?
> the rise of extreme identity groups at war with each other … all symptoms of a society rapidly spiraling into collapse.
The Holocaust, Holomodor, Cambodian Genocide, Kazakh genocide, Armenian genocide, Indonesian genocide, Greek genocide, Serbian genocide, etc. all occurred before the sexual revolution, and most occurred after Unwin's text.
In fact, the only large scale genocides I see near the top of Wikipedia's list to occur after the sexual revolution are in Africa, where birth control is not widely available and the sexual revolution has arguably not yet reached.
If anything, the sexual revolution seems to correlate with a secessation in large-scale sectarian violence. Not too surprising given that many genocides are fueled in part by population pressure.
Large scale violence has dramatically fallen since the 1970s. Millions more were killed in the fifty years before the invention of the Pill than after.
Any discussion of the sexual revolution's effects on society that doesn't discuss birth control is completely irrelevant. Before birth control, premarital sex inextricably meant premarital children, which fundamentally alters the lifepath of the parent. With birth control, sex moves out of the realm of life-altering acts and into the realm of personal experiences.
This entire article is a conclusion desperately trying to cobble together a narrative that supports it while completely ignoring any evidence to the contrary.
> The swiftness with which rational thinking declined after the 1970’s is astounding. In its place arose post-modernism, characterized by “scepticism, subjectivism, or relativism” and “a general suspicion of reason”.
What could be more rational than skepticism and using the tools of reason to study reason itself?
> the rise of extreme identity groups at war with each other … all symptoms of a society rapidly spiraling into collapse.
The Holocaust, Holomodor, Cambodian Genocide, Kazakh genocide, Armenian genocide, Indonesian genocide, Greek genocide, Serbian genocide, etc. all occurred before the sexual revolution, and most occurred after Unwin's text.
In fact, the only large scale genocides I see near the top of Wikipedia's list to occur after the sexual revolution are in Africa, where birth control is not widely available and the sexual revolution has arguably not yet reached.
If anything, the sexual revolution seems to correlate with a secessation in large-scale sectarian violence. Not too surprising given that many genocides are fueled in part by population pressure.
Large scale violence has dramatically fallen since the 1970s. Millions more were killed in the fifty years before the invention of the Pill than after.