 Re: Has US abstinence policy failed?
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Originally Posted by aegyptos  I notice this interest on the part of Europeans on a whole range of American topics that have no possible bearing on their lives. Its actually a negative critique. It seems very strange to me that Europeans would care about a minor American domestic subject that can have no possible effect on their existence. I sometimes suspect that this is a device by which Europeans attempt to validate the social choices they have made without reference to any evidence pro or con. | It's called being interested in the outside world beyond our borders. Trust me if more Americans did the same, the world would be a better place.
We also are so curious about America because it is an anomoly. It is the only Western nation to have death pelanty, where the majority of people do not think evolution to be true, where abortion is a political issue, where abstinence is taught in schools (I mean even European Catholic coutnries don't to that!!),where people cling to guns like to children and yet you are the richest nation in the world.
The US is a very very very strange country in regards to the rest of the free world.
But why are you so defensive about us debating your issues? If you want to debate European social issues, go right ahead, I would enjoy it for a change, I'm sure we all would.
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