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I do know a good YouTube channel that talks about what the Bible says about dating, and it's good stuff. To sum up the video: you want a woman who is virtuous in the traditional sense, and to attract such a woman, you have to be personally virtuous in your own life. I'd personally read it...

@Cherico I honestly do think you are right about the current system and how it is set up to deal with men, but there are also things men can do in their personal lives to mitigate the risk of bad women taking advantage of them. Would you agree to that?

@ShieldWife Ah, well I don't use that framing, and here's why: Let's say we lived in a world where people murdered Jews and ate them, and this was an acceptable position. And then, two people got into an argument about whether this practice of cannibalizing Jews is good for you. The person...

I'd love to engage with you on the meat of your argument, but it seems it doesn't have any. In your own words, you look to the Constitution for "guidance." For what? Why? Why should I care about a document that hasn't actually been in effect since FDR? Why should I care about a document that...

"Humans are very religious but fail to live up to their own moral standards." How enlightening. How amazing. Nobody has ever thought of that before. Now tell me, how do you get from "humans are hypocritical" to "my moral standards are correct"? Sounds like as much of a compromise as the...

Please, enlighten me to this "broader and wider view of human morality." Surely, it's this must be something that's well thought-out, right? And I don't feel comfortable being in a society where pornography is going to be widespread (which is what you want). The question, then, is whose...

I’ll keep that in mind next time. Thank you for your advice.

@FriedCFour I believe you are starting to see why I don’t bother talking to them. They don’t actually think porn is a problem, but they didn’t come out and say that. They instead started calling me names.

The political problem of pornography is that it undermines the general sexual morality of the public, making them irreligious, unable to hold a steady relationship, and docile. It also makes people stupider by destroying their brains in a manner similar to hard drugs. If we take these problems...

Alright then, what is your solution to the problem of pornography?

So shutting down all the major porn websites would have no effect on porn consumption? None at all?

I don't really believe that. It's not like I'm going to have the police invade people's homes and look for what lemon fanfics they wrote on their computers. I'd just have them use hackers to crash the biggest porn websites. That simple.

Sounds like that's just a superstition of yours.

A lot of libertarians praise Mill for his "harm principle," but if I remember him correctly, he thought that social stigma was more harmful than government coercion. Right, so we must decide what the best way to deal with obesity or pornography. Although I would argue that something like an...

In all fairness to them, they'd probably point out the physical and emotional harm nonconsensual sex causes. And I think that's the main point: they assume something like J. S. Mill's philosophy, particularly his harm principle and his opposition to prejudicial attitudes towards non-traditional...

Well, for the people doing the studies, the stigma is the problem because they want adultery and polyamory to be seen as normal in our society.

Here's my point on this. Assume the "stigma" narrative is correct. What does that prove? What if the stigma is biologically programmed? What if it's justified? What if we can't get rid of it without massive government re-education programs. Those who push this "stigma" narrative hardly ever...

@Cherico I could argue that libertarianism is Leftist because it's also an a priori idea of politics that focuses on abstract ideas like "freedom" and is skeptical of traditional authority and traditional values.

@Bacle I would hold my same social conservative positions even if you convinced me that the Bible was purely a lie. So you’re wrong.

I’ll take your advice.