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Devil's Advocate #1

I have decided to attempt intelligent discussion; occasioning the trivial and absurd. I call this attempt the Devil's Advocate series!

This is where I play devil's advocate and take points of view and challenge them.

I hope it won't be a one way thing. Just comment and we can continue the discussion!

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If you've been watching Astro, you would have come across a lame attempt at a PSA regarding the abandonment of babies, or the throwing away of infants to be more blunt.

The attempt is one of a karoke style, let's get all the celebs we can find and have them sing this emo-ish it's going to crescendo at the end with a strong solo by a woman in the middle type tune.

Now, I am against the throwing away of babies. Hell yes. I think people who do this are murderers and should be locked up (or if they are suffering from post natal depression, a shorter sentence with psychological help).

That aside, just days after I watched the PSA for the n-th time, I heard on the radio that a local government does not agree that sex education shou

ld be taught in schools. Their reasoning behind this: It may encourage underage, pre-marital sex which may lead to a proliferation of infanticide. (not ad verbatim)

So!

Devil's Advocate #1: Sex education in schools

It must be taught! It's illogical to say that by NOT telling teenagers about the effectiveness of contraceptives and propagate the notion of "abstinence is the ONLY way" - that the number of teen pregnancies will drop. There is actually research that proves the contrary:

"Experts from the American Public Health Associatio

n and U.S. Institute of Medicine testified that scientific studies have not found that abstinence-only teaching works to cut pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases or the age when sexual activity begins." (Reuters)

However, there IS research that shows CONDOMS FUCKING WORK.

We're not really taught sex education here, and that whole chart on contraceptives in the bio text books is hardly counted as sex education.

Funnily enough, contraception is taught in NS. When I went, they showed us how to put on a condom on a banana, or a cucumber, I forget.

I say teach both. Contraception AND abstinence. Show us research, give us proof. Then let US decide. Stop shoving dogma down students' throats (haha double entendre).

People are going to have sex. And when they do, equipped with the knowledge that contraceptives can prevent pregnancies and STDs, maybe THEN, infanticide rates will fall.

Don't just sing it with "peshen" and think you're going to enlighten hormone pumped sexual beings.

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I welcome feedback for further discussion!

Short ones, long ones (haha double entendre. again!), feedback of any kind is appreciated.

School reopens tmr

and i still have my COP assignment to do ...

sorry Jal. i skipped dinner cause i know i ought to stay at home and do my COP project ;(



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Facebook

There is a movie about to be released later this entitled The Social Network. You should be able to guess the movie is about facebook, or rather the creation of it. The movie is basically about the creator Mark Zuckerberg and how Facebook came to become as it is today. Quite dark as you can see the trailer.



The song for this trailer is a cover version of Radiohead's ''Creep''. Beautiful song.



Its done back in 1992 so its quite prehistoric but still very brilliant. If you follow Radiohead, you'll notice Radiohead's sound at this point of their career is quite different from their more recent works but still amazing. I'm quite inspired by their experimental attitude.

That's all for today. I thought of just sharing a piece of info that might interest you people at home/starbucks/lift/MBPJ toilet. Have a good weekend and I'll see you all the next full moon.

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