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Should teenagers be given free condoms?

Should teenagers be given free condoms?

  • Of course! They need to have sex safely

    Votes: 47 50.5%
  • No, it only encourages them

    Votes: 23 24.7%
  • Other(Please elaborate)

    Votes: 23 24.7%

  • Total voters
    93
Why?

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Because on the side of the condom dispensers I would put pictures of a baby crowning or a very diseased crack ho vajayjay similar in logic to them wanting to put graphic pixs on packs of smokes.
 
Perhaps make them edible, and one of the major food groups, and then you kill two birds, so to speak - either eat em, or use em, but probably not both.

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These are not really suckers in case you're wondering....Was going to post some other pics but wasn't going to chance the possibility of an infraction. ;)
 
Because on the side of the condom dispensers I would put pictures of a baby crowning or a very diseased crack ho vajayjay similar in logic to them wanting to put graphic pixs on packs of smokes.

Same could be done for the boys side. :shrug:. But honestly such pictures accomplish nothing.
 
Should society not try to improve itself? It's in your personal best interest aswell the tax burden to buy condoms in far less than the amount of money to support the child in the welfare system the most likely in the criminal system. What benefits society ultimately benefits you as a part of society.

Society should make people improve themselves by letting them suffer for their own poor decisions. Doing such either improves the individual, and thus society as a whole, or at least doesn't make others take any burden they don't deserve.

This also goes back to people saying what happens in their bedroom is only their business, hence it is only their responsibility if they want/need condoms.
 
Same could be done for the boys side. :shrug:. But honestly such pictures accomplish nothing.

Well since the girls are the ones who are going to have that baby popping out of them, I'd say those ads would be better targeted at the girls. Guys would just put it all in their spank bank.
 
Society should make people improve themselves by letting them suffer for their own poor decisions. Doing such either improves the individual, and thus society as a whole, or at least doesn't make others take any burden they don't deserve.

This also goes back to people saying what happens in their bedroom is only their business, hence it is only their responsibility if they want/need condoms.

Post of the week right here folks, and its only Sunday.
 
Do you want to stand on principle, or do you want tax money to pay for unplanned kids?

Option C does not exist.
 
Don't hand them out, but have them available so they can get them without having to embarrass themselves.
 
Should teenagers be given free condoms?

No, female teenagers, particularly those who are socially identifiable as a high-risk for teenage pregnancy, should be encouraged to take a shot of Depo, or some other long-acting birth control agent, at scheduled intervals.
 
Should teenagers be given free condoms?

Free - from whom? The government? Absolutely not *free* from the government: having an active sex life comes with the responsibility of paying for your own protection. If you're a teen, you're still living at home with your parents - and you're they're responsibility, not Uncle Sam's.
 
Should society not try to improve itself? It's in your personal best interest aswell the tax burden to buy condoms in far less than the amount of money to support the child in the welfare system the most likely in the criminal system. What benefits society ultimately benefits you as a part of society.

Why is it the government job to give people what they need or want? I don't happen to find that welfare in this form or any other form is an improvement. In this example, all it appears to do is shift responsibility from the target, to the people around the target. I have no responsibility to make sure these children use condoms or have condoms in their possession. I have no reason to consider what they want or need something that I must concern myself with. If the kids need condoms they can either get down to the store and buy themselves some or get mommy and daddy to give them some. I have no reason to be involved in it.
 
Umm...isn't that the whole point of giving free condoms? To prevent those kids that are not able to raise kids, which includes financially, from having kids?
They can use Ziplock bags and crudely fashioned tape.
 
They can use Ziplock bags and crudely fashioned tape.

Just give them balloons. They can make balloon animals with them and use them for condoms.
 
No...they cost like about $1 each.

What teenager in America cannot afford $1?


They should be easy for teenagers to get...but giving them away is not necessary.
 
yes, so why waste tax money..

Is it a waste? It's a drop in the bucket compared to paying for unplanned kids.

Worrying about a few dollars relative to the much larger amounts of money that would be spent otherwise is foolish. Plus, lack of full and absolute success shouldn't be an excuse for discarding partial success.
 
It has been a hot 103 degree day again! Texas needs rain badly! Maybe the Eastern US could share some?

The lower display is the high that I measured here in Sacramento yesterday. It wasn't that hot today, but tomorrow and the next day look like they will likely be hotter. Today's high, as measured by my outside thermometer, was 104.9 °F.

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not for free. They should be required to forfeit 30 minutes of cellphone/text msging time for each one. Double for rainbows
 
Why limit it to teenagers? If the government's got money to burn, let it rain condoms on everyone.

You can get condoms for free at any Planned Parenthood or STD clinic. Plentiful condoms are a benefit to public health, controlling the spread of HIV. And preventing teenage pregnancy.

Like the common sense not to have sex before they're married?

An example where "common sense" actually means terrible advice.

Are you suggesting that taking responsibility for your own life is old fashioned and out of date?

No, conflating sex and marriage is old fashioned, out of date, and detrimental. A healthy sex life is not served by pledging a lifelong commitment without any idea what you're doing or knowing what you want. Ignorance in relationships and romance is terribly unfair to a spouse. Defining responsibility as "settling down and breeding" is old fashioned and out of date.

No two kids are at the same level of understanding when the schools start the 'mystery movies' regarding procreation.

It's 100% in the hands of the parents to know when and how much to talk to their kids, and even the best talks can fail when the hormones kick in. Complete failure happens when the parents relegate that responsibility to the schools.

And abstinence-only education outright lies to kids in order to scare them into not having sex, but the actual result is that kids don't know to use birth control. Telling kids not to have sex doesn't accomplish anything. It never has. Helping them do so safely is the only way to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

If someone wants or needs something it is their duty and their job to make sure they get it. I realize people always have some sort of benefit that comes about from giving people free things, but the gains are always the entire reason they are supposed to be motivated to get it themselves.

"It's more important to blame people and feel superior than it is to solve problems."

Society should make people improve themselves by letting them suffer for their own poor decisions. Doing such either improves the individual, and thus society as a whole, or at least doesn't make others take any burden they don't deserve.

Easy to say when one is born fortunate enough not to have to take those risks.

Free - from whom? The government? Absolutely not *free* from the government: having an active sex life comes with the responsibility of paying for your own protection. If you're a teen, you're still living at home with your parents - and you're they're responsibility, not Uncle Sam's.

Why so hard to be a nation of people that watch out for each other?

Don't disagree. They're also pretty cheap. Too many kids still won't use them, though.

And yet, distributing them to kids actually gets kids to use them. Crazy, right?

It is pathetic and sad how much of this thread is callousness and egoism.
 
The lower display is the high that I measured here in Sacramento yesterday. It wasn't that hot today, but tomorrow and the next day look like they will likely be hotter. Today's high, as measured by my outside thermometer, was 104.9 °F.

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sorry got you beat, it was about 110 today here.
 
"It's more important to blame people and feel superior than it is to solve problems."
way.

I'm not blaming anyone for anything, but at the end of the day these kids have to learn to take responsibility for themselves. They know to use them, they are easily affordable, and they are readily available. All they have to do is go to the store and pick some up. That is it.

Why so hard to be a nation of people that watch out for each other?

Why is it the government job to make sure kids have condoms? Why do you have to use government force to make fellow citizens do as you want? Why can't you go out and talk to your citizens and together provide kids with condoms?
 
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