• Planned Parenthood Pushes Intensive Sex Education for Kids as Young as 10
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[QUOTE=plappy03;20107665]He meant that 2 years is a fifth of 10 years.[/QUOTE] Oh right, sorry, I thought he was talking about total life and not just lived life.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;20107626]50/5=10.[/QUOTE] A fifth of 10 is 2. Lankist was saying 2 years isn't a big deal.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20107705]A fifth of 10 is 2. Lankist was saying 2 years isn't a big deal.[/QUOTE] Because it isn't, for the exact same reason that the difference between legal adulthood for military service (18) is 3 years from legal adulthood for buying alcohol (21) I want to know who figured they could draw these arbitrary-ass lines marking maturity. So two years is the difference between being able to understand what your junk does and three years is the difference between dying for your country and dying for your liver? Where's the fucking logic?
Dammit. One side doesn't want to teach any, the other can't wait. What needs to happen is teach this around the age of 12-14 [B]when its actually applicable.[/B] Does anybody honestly remember ANYTHING they were taught around the age of 6 or 7? That, and there is one thing about educating kids about being safe and knowing the dangers, and practically advocating it the way these guys are.
[QUOTE=StormHammer;20107784]What needs to happen is teach this around the age of 12-14 [B]when its actually applicable.[/B][/QUOTE] Yeah p. sure by the good old :foxnews: link sex is entirely possible at the age of 10.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20107735]Because it isn't, for the exact same reason that the difference between legal adulthood for military service (18) is 3 years from legal adulthood for buying alcohol (21) I want to know who figured they could draw these arbitrary-ass lines marking maturity. So two years is the difference between being able to understand what your junk does and three years is the difference between dying for your country and dying for your liver? Where's the fucking logic?[/QUOTE] The reason for the legal age to join the military is 18 is because your body stops growing around 18, but your frontal lobe isn't fully developed until you're in your early 20s. Since drinking alcohol stunts frontal lobe development, they make it so that you can't legally drink until you're fully developed. Also, what I was saying is that 2 years is actually a lot of time for maturity and growth considering that you're supposed to be fully developed by 20. So 2 years is a tenth of the amount of time it takes for you to "mature" I'm not saying anything significant in terms of maturity has to happen during that time though.
So you're telling me that people are smart and responsible enough to die in war at the age of 18, but they're still too irresponsible to drink? Know what else damages the frontal lobe? AN IED.
If you take the mystery and forbidden thrill out of the equation the kids will be much less inclined to do anything
In my opinion we should start sex ed at around 10. I mean they're going learn how to have sex at around that age so you might as well teach them the risks and pleasures of it. Another problem is todays popular culture.
Also FYI alcohol does not kill braincells like that. I'm not sure who told you that but the reality is that young people are MORE resilient than the older to the effects of brain-cell loss because their body is still developing the brain. It has a minor capacity to heal itself, one that the older individual does not have the luxury of. In addition, by the time you will have received any noticeable brain damage at the age of 18 from drinking alcohol your liver will have failed ten times over.
The point of war isn't to come out a smarter or more developed person, it's to fight and die. They just advertise it as if you're going to have some life changing epiphany or some shit while serving. You're old enough to fight and die at 18, but not old enough to drink since it will make you mildly retarded.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20107936]The point of war isn't to come out a smarter or more developed person, it's to fight and die. They just advertise it as if you're going to have some life changing epiphany or some shit while serving. You're old enough to fight and die at 18, but not old enough to drink since it will make you mildly retarded.[/QUOTE] So basically you're saying that it's A-OK to die on the government's terms but you'll be goddamned if you'll allow legal adults to control their own bodies for their own purposes? Also I'd like to know who told you it kills braincells at the age of 18, given that is entirely false.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20107933]Also FYI alcohol does not kill braincells like that. I'm not sure who told you that but the reality is that young people are MORE resilient than the older to the effects of brain-cell loss because their body is still developing the brain. In addition, by the time you will have received any noticeable brain damage at the age of 18 from drinking alcohol your liver will have failed ten times over.[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter how resilient you are. Your brain cells still die. Having dead brain cells does not make you a better person.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20107936]The point of war isn't to come out a smarter or more developed person, it's to fight and die. They just advertise it as if you're going to have some life changing epiphany or some shit while serving. You're old enough to fight and die at 18, but not old enough to drink since it will make you mildly retarded.[/QUOTE] I'm going to need a source for the alcohol thing.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20107954]So basically you're saying that it's A-OK to die on the government's terms but you'll be goddamned if you'll allow legal adults to control their own bodies for their own purposes?[/QUOTE] Yep. Same reason you can't drive at 14 most places.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20107956]It doesn't matter how resilient you are. Your brain cells still die. Having dead brain cells does not make you a better person.[/QUOTE] Yeah except in order to retain any noticeable braincell loss you will have to drink such inordinate amounts of booze that your fucking liver will fail multiple times. It's also possible to incur brain damage from marijuana if you smoke inhuman fucking proportions.
I have never heard, in my 15 years of existence, that having alcohol before the age of 21 can make you retarded.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;20107958]I'm going to need a source for the alcohol thing.[/QUOTE] Google can help you there. But heres one. [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-are-the-effects-of-a[/url] [editline]06:33PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lankist;20107994]Yeah except in order to retain any noticeable braincell loss you will have to drink such inordinate amounts of booze that your fucking liver will fail multiple times. It's also possible to incur brain damage from marijuana if you smoke inhuman fucking proportions.[/QUOTE] If you drink everyday between 18 and 21 like some people, brain cells will still die. What's so harmful in waiting 3 years? Also you can't be certain it won't affect you in some way. You don't even know yourself.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108005]Google can help you there. But heres one. [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-are-the-effects-of-a[/url][/QUOTE] P. sure that says absolutely nothing to prove your point of permanent brain damage from alcohol abuse.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;20107995]I have never heard, in my 15 years of existence, that having alcohol before the age of 21 can make you retarded.[/QUOTE] It doesn't, it just kills brain cells. [editline]06:34PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lankist;20108028]P. sure that says absolutely nothing to prove your point of permanent brain damage from alcohol abuse.[/QUOTE] Where did I say permanent brain damage? As if it's some sort of super disability. I said it kills brain cells.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108005]If you drink everyday between 18 and 21 like some people, brain cells will still die.[/quote] Except they don't. [quote]What's so harmful in waiting 3 years?[/QUOTE] Because it isn't your goddamn body and it isn't your goddamn call what someone else does with THEIR fucking body. If you're smart enough to serve in the military you're smart enough to make your own goddamn decisions about your own goddamn body. Get your dick out of everyone else's business. You don't want to drink? That's fine. But I'll be goddamned if you think you're going to tell anyone else what they're going to do.
Kids these days are getting STDs. They need to learn about safety before doing it. :colbert:
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108030]It doesn't, it just kills brain cells. [editline]06:34PM[/editline] Where did I say permanent brain damage? As if it's some sort of super disability. I said it kills brain cells.[/QUOTE] Yeah if you drink a fucking bottle of pure alcohol. Even then it would just end up fucking your liver to hell and back. The only way to bypass Liver failure would to ingest alcohol using an enema and that would just kill you outright.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20108042]Except they don't.[/quote] What about frat houses? What about teenage alcoholics? If you can be an alcoholic by 30, you can be an alcoholic by 18. [quote] Because it isn't your goddamn body and it isn't your goddamn call what someone else does with THEIR fucking body.[/QUOTE] If someone wanted to do PCP, cocaine and heroin would you let them? It's their goddamn body. Also more sources. [url]http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm[/url]
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108030]It doesn't, it just kills brain cells.[/quote] Except it doesn't, not noticeably more than any other daily activity. [quote]Where did I say permanent brain damage? As if it's some sort of super disability. I said it kills brain cells.[/QUOTE] You said it would make someone mildly retarded and stunt brain development from 18 and forward. That was a fucking lie. It doesn't kill brain cells at any more a rapid rate than anything else.
I took sex ed when I was 10. That was 11 years ago :confused: What's so new about this? All they do is show you how everything works, birth, and the horrifying STDs.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;20108072]Yeah if you drink a fucking bottle of pure alcohol. Even then it would just end up fucking your liver to hell and back. The only way to bypass Liver failure would to ingest alcohol using an enema and that would just kill you outright.[/QUOTE] You guys are missing the point. If you get drunk everynight, brain cells will die. If you get drunk everynight before you are 20ish, it will stunt your brain development preventing you from ever being fully developed. How often you have to drink to have an effect is unknown.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108086]What about frat houses? What about teenage alcoholics? If you can be an alcoholic by 30, you can be an alcoholic by 18.[/quote] I don't care if they're an alcoholic, it's their goddamn choice. Driving drunk is illegal, starting shit is illegal. If they want to drink themselves to death responsibly they can goddamn well do so. [quote] If someone wanted to do PCP, cocaine and heroin would you let them? It's their goddamn body.[/quote] Yes, I would. It's THEIR body. [quote]Also more sources. [url]http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm[/url][/QUOTE] Are you fucking illiterate? That article talks about the immediate effects of a mind-altering drug, and the only instances of brain damage are from other causes. And it's "Developing brain" section is about DRINKING WHILE PREGNANT you nonce.
[QUOTE=Lankist;20108091]Except it doesn't, not noticeably more than any other daily activity. You said it would make someone mildly retarded and stunt brain development from 18 and forward. That was a fucking lie. It doesn't kill brain cells at any more a rapid rate than anything else.[/QUOTE] Mildly retarded was just a statement to prove my point. Here we say mildly retarded for anyone who is unnaturally "slow". Also, yes it does. Alcohol kills brain cells. You're missing the point here Lankist. It's not about free-will or choice, it's the fact that people could hurt themselves if given the opportunity.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20108115]If you get drunk everynight, brain cells will die. If you get drunk everynight before you are 20ish, it will stunt your brain development preventing you from ever being fully developed..[/QUOTE] Except it fucking doesn't.
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