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Also, why do you assume that this single education that is taught is the right one? There are a lot of opinions out there. The education that is taught today is exceedingly politically correct and is going ever more liberal. Which is in tune with the values of the day, but those might not be correct. Politically correct, yes, but not necessarily actually correct. So how do you know that the single education is not steering everybody together into the dungeon of a single incorrect perspective?
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But, back on topic, defining an entire population (i.e. those who do not abstain from high school sex) via statistical trends of a subset of that population is discrimination. It's like saying blacks are generally less well-educated (which is true), and thus being black causes you to be more stupid (which is not true).
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France's morality, from my perspective, keeps getting worse and worse off. Their kinds of views are pretty common throughout Europe, but they do tend to stand out to a certain extent.
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I hate to brown-nose so much, being too lazy to argue myself...but well-put Lief
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And that's not the number of French people who find homosexuality itself to be fine; that number is bound to be far larger. So even though France doesn't allow homosexual marriage under law, the perspective that homosexuality is fine is very widespread in the population. Ah, I found a source: Quote:
The number of French people who see homosexuality as morally acceptable is far higher than the percentage in the UK or Britain. It's interesting to see the difference of perspective in the Muslim populations, too.
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http://www.teenpregnancy.org/wim/default.asp And, for the record, BJ, I was not defining one population in the rather inelegant manner you propose, I was discriminating on the basis of outcome the effect of a causal relation in a given population of high school aged people. So I readily admit to PROPER discrimination and overtly reject your errant nonsense about race as even being related to the question at hand.
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Percentage of pregnancies ended by abortion:
France- 21.5% US- 23.9% As well, the US has higher rates of STDs among both teens and the general population, higher teen pregnancy rates, and American teens start having sex younger and have more partners than teens in other developed countries. And note the UK and Canada are among the "moderate rate countries"; the "low rate" countries are places like France, the Netherlands and Sweden. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_teens.html Teenagers' Sexual and Reproductive Health: Developed Countries Motes, beams, eyes.
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The Boston article is not surprising at all.
Areas with greater diversity are also likely to be poorer. Minorities are, by definition, likely to be less engaged with civic institutions. There's your answers. And (one of) the great conservative lie(s) is further perpetrated on this thread: that equality equals homogeneity. This is not the case. |
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GrayMouser, the link you posted doesn't work.
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