Old Hope wrote:Godular wrote:And comprehensive sex education. Amusingly, if we were to tie abstinence-only sex education to this analogy, it would be functionally equivalent to telling people that the best way to avoid a car accident is to not drive at all.
...but that would be true.
Strictly speaking that is true, but that isn't useful advice. Why? Because people will drive, to work, for work, for fun, the reason doesn't mater.
If all you do is tell people to not drive, and don't teach them how to drive or safety features to use while driving, then all you are going to do is get more people killed as they drive in unsafe manners without using proper safety measures.
The best way to teach people about the dangers of driving is to point out that driving has risks, how to drive safely, and what safety equipment to use while driving.
The same goes for sex. People will have sex. It is better to teach people how to have safe sex than to try and stop people having sex by keeping them ignorant. Ignorant people will still have sex, they just won't do it in a safe manner, leading to the spread of disease and unwanted pregnancies.