Tim Cook Speaks Up

Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by beauSD on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:57PM (#8552686)

Once we get to the point of calling basic human anatomy 'baseless', we've definitely gone off the deep end as a society. This is not about infertility due to medical conditions or age and it's not about tradition - it's about the fact that a man and a woman having sex is the way that human beings are produced. Everything else is an attempt to ignore reality to suit our our personal desires.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by JoeAltmaier on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:03PM (#8552713)

How about birth control? Marriage? These are ignoring the very human impulse to procreate constantly and with many people. Are they wrong too?

That procreation argument is silly. Human beings order themselves into societies, and not as some sort of procreation machine. But instead to encourage kindness, cooperation, happiness. We have laws to keep from harming one another, and roofs over our heads to keep us warmer and dryer than we 'naturally' would have been. This is what it means to be human, too.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by beauSD on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:17PM (#8552804)

Yeah, I would argue that yielding to the impulse to 'procreate constantly' outside of marriage would be equally as harmful as following any other sexual desires (homosexuality, polygamy, pedophilia, etc) that doesn't line up with how sex and marriage are meant to work - that is one man marrying one woman and them having sex.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by JoeAltmaier on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:27PM (#8552875)

"Meant to work" is very strange here. First monogamy it supposed to be a natural state. Now its an artificial social construction? Then what's so precious about it? Versus the other states that people are, and have been, living in for centuries?

Oh I get it - argue whatever it takes to make male-female marriage sacred and anything else wrong. Ok. I see.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by beauSD on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:52PM (#8553027)

I can see how 'meant to work' would sound strange, especially since we normally talk about sex as something that should be based solely on our individual physical urges - whatever they may be.

I would say that marriage and sex get their value and purpose from God. That he created man and woman to come together in marriage and have sex. That he made sex pleasurable, and good, and that one of the benefits of sex is often that children are produced.

I think we must either get our understanding of sex and marriage from a source outside ourselves (the transcendent God) or we just make things up to suit our individual drives - and the second option opens us up as individuals, and as a society, to a lot of harm.

I understand this is not a popular viewpoint, especially on HN, but I think it's valuable to offer some pushback in a civil way every now and then.

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