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Re:The Need for Touch by virmundi on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:43AM (#24907889)
If you don’t want a disease, it is a real danger.
Re:The Need for Touch by ebg13 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:30AM (#24908352)
That's an irrationally fearful idea of danger. I don't want to eat broccoli, but that doesn't mean eating broccoli is dangerous.
Re:The Need for Touch by virmundi on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:59AM (#24908702)
This is an avoidable danger. If you want to have sex, pick a faithful partner. There is little reason to put oneself in harms way for STI. Especially as we’re seeing an increase in antibiotic resistant strains.
Re:The Need for Touch by coldtea on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:02PM (#24909374)
If you don't want oxygen, breathing gets a real danger too.

But "real danger" usually has a more well defined meaning...

Re:The Need for Touch by virmundi on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:03PM (#24911199)
are you an anti masker?
Re:The Need for Touch by coldtea on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:41AM (#24918023)
No, I'm pointing that "if you want to avoid X, any Y that gives X is a real danger" is a BS argument, because not all X are considered dangerous...

So using an argument of the kind to prove some Y is dangerous is either bad reasoning or disengenuous...