Let's say I really wanted to reduce the number of children who die in car accidents. Car accidents are really bad, right? Nobody disagrees about that. And it would be much better for both the environment and the kids' health if they spent more time walking, or taking the bus. Perfectly reasonable. More cars off the road, safer roads, fewer kids getting hurt, healthier kids. A win-win!
Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!
SUCH a good analogy because we have no problem teaching kids a lot about cars. How they work, their anatomy you might say, how they can operate one safely when they are of age.
And no one questions that this is exactly what we need to do in order to have more safe drivers on the road. No one questions that a child could want to know about how, and even desire to operate a car someday, even if they are too young to do so now. No one even questions that sometimes kids even drive cars before 18.
But when it comes to sex we all of a sudden lose our goddamn sense because of the notions of people hundreds of years ago who thought witches were why their cows went dry and murdered random women about it.
