Harrison Bergeron said:Waco1947 said:
Brickhead said: I think this might be just example 1 million that the sexual revolution was a mistake
It's almost impossible to figure out cases of drunk, drug-drugged young men and women…policing their constant sexual hookups….and finding out who consented to what & when, and who did not
This is a remarkably lazy argument. You take the existence of difficult sexual situations and somehow leap to "the Sexual Revolution was a mistake." That isn't reasoning; it's nostalgia masquerading as an argument.
Were there no drunk people having sex before the Sexual Revolution? No drug use? No sexual coercion? No rape? No confusion about consent? Of course there were. Human beings have been making disastrous decisions about sex for thousands of years.
And notice the sleight of hand: you haven't demonstrated that the Sexual Revolution caused these problems. You've simply listed problems that have always existed and attached them to a cultural movement you already dislike.
If you want to argue that today's hookup culture, attitudes toward casual sex, or substance use have made sexual misconduct more common, then make that case with evidence. But "young people are drunk, drugged, and having hookups, therefore the Sexual Revolution was a mistake" is not an argument. It's a conclusion looking for a justification.
By that standard, any social change that doesn't eliminate human stupidity is a failure.
I can explain it to you but I cannot understand it for you.
He can't see the forest for the trees.