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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
The only reason I even agree to taxation is to fund for my own protection. I have no interest in your protection at all and I have no reason to pay for it.

I don't care.
 
I don't believe that only having private charities will be able to produce the same level of aid as a mandatory aid program via taxation does. Besides, people are already free to donate to private charities as they see fit.

Why would anyone assume that private charity could get anywhere near the amount that taking from people against their will can and does? The very idea is insane to even suggest.
 
Why would anyone assume that private charity could get anywhere near the amount that taking from people against their will can and does? The very idea is insane to even suggest.

Um, I don't.
 
Um, I don't.

I think your post made that abundantly clear. The post however had no reason to be made. It goes without saying that having the ability to take whatever you want can't be matched by needing people to give you want they see fit on their own free will.
 
I think your post made that abundantly clear. The post however had no reason to be made. It goes without saying that having the ability to take whatever you want can't be matched by needing people to give you want they see fit on their own free will.

It did have a reason to be made. Because you suggested private charities as an alternative to mandatory taxation. I explained a relevant distinction that justifies why I consider a mandatory aid program irreplaceable by private charities.
 
Why would you? You believe the government should act like a forced charity branch for your own desires.

Oh spare me. :roll: You want the government to only fund the programs you want as well.
 
Oh spare me. :roll: You want the government to only fund the programs you want as well.

Yes, to protect my rights. Not to provide me or other people things at fellow citizens expense or to turn government into a charity. The government should not be in the business of providing people access to services in the market or doing anything similar to it. You clearly think differently and as I explained I find that to be unwise economically speaking for all parties involved.
 
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It did have a reason to be made. Because you suggested private charities as an alternative to mandatory taxation. I explained a relevant distinction that justifies why I consider a mandatory aid program irreplaceable by private charities.

At no point did I suggest private charity as an alternative to mandatory taxation. You're just making stuff up or you have poor reading compression skills.
 
The government should not be in the business of providing people access to services in the market or doing anything similar to it.

I disagree. Period. This discussion is going nowhere. Good day.
 
I disagree. Period. This discussion is going nowhere. Good day.

You have no reason to disagree. You desire to help these people, but providing them access to services in the market does not help them, but merely provides business with profits. Your position is self defeating in the long run.
 
Why allow your kids to ruin their own lives when you could just raise them right in the first place? If your kids are ignoring you, maybe it's not them that's doing something wrong.



That was pretty darn rude and makes no sense at all.....I don't care how well you raise a child, that child becomes a young man or young woman with a mind of its own and will dam well do whatever they choose to do and consequences bedeviled......
 
The only reason I even agree to taxation is to fund for my own protection. I have no interest in your protection at all and I have no reason to pay for it.



I had a "debate" yesterday on another board with an Aussie who stated that he would live in North Korea before he would ever live in the US...Perhaps you feel the same way?
 
My parents did everything right with me and I still had urges to do bad things. I restrained myself, but I know other kids that had similar parents but the kids just didn't care. Kids are an entirely new breed.

You just blew your own argument out of the water. Your parents steered you in the right direction, you restrained yourself. My parents did the same thing and so did I. So who should we blame for kids that didn't get the same kind of direction? Not the kids...
 
That was pretty darn rude and makes no sense at all.....I don't care how well you raise a child, that child becomes a young man or young woman with a mind of its own and will dam well do whatever they choose to do and consequences bedeviled......

And this is why liberalism is such a horrible outlook...
 
I had a "debate" yesterday on another board with an Aussie who stated that he would live in North Korea before he would ever live in the US...Perhaps you feel the same way?

People like that are being theatrical. I guarantee you if he were put on a boat at gunpoint and given only those two choices, he would pick the US in a heartbeat.
 
I had a "debate" yesterday on another board with an Aussie who stated that he would live in North Korea before he would ever live in the US...Perhaps you feel the same way?

The only motivation that I can see for paying the state is to pay them to provide me a service. Why would I be motivated to pay them to provide services to other people? Why would I be interested in paying anyone so that they could serve someone else? I wasn't trying to be rude with my comment, but the fact is that my motivation to pay the state outside of threat of punishment for not paying is to provide me protection of my rights.

I'm not sure what your post has to do with mine, but I see no reason why North Korea would be more suitable for me than the US.
 
People like that are being theatrical. I guarantee you if he were put on a boat at gunpoint and given only those two choices, he would pick the US in a heartbeat.



I bet he would too..:)
 
The only motivation that I can see for paying the state is to pay them to provide me a service. Why would I be motivated to pay them to provide services to other people? Why would I be interested in paying anyone so that they could serve someone else? I wasn't trying to be rude with my comment, but the fact is that my motivation to pay the state outside of threat of punishment for not paying is to provide me protection of my rights.

I'm not sure what your post has to do with mine, but I see no reason why North Korea would be more suitable for me than the US.




Well North Korea has no safety net for their citizens--they have concentration camps instead..........so you would rather see a young unwed mother living on the street, eating garbage? How about if she dropped that newborn on your doorstep instead?
 
And this is why liberalism is such a horrible outlook...




They used to call us bleeding heart liberals--for a good reason...We know how to walk in our brother''s shoes, we are caring and compassionate...That doesn't seem horrible to me....
 
Free, no to that, nothing in the world is free and kids need to learn this just as everybody needs to learn that. At cost or close to cost, yes, because it is prudent and wise to encourage kids to use protection with the sex they are bound to have anyway. Condoms do not encourage young people having sex but it does protect the users from the bad results this can have (pregnancy and STD's) and protects us as a society from having to pay for the possible results from having unprotected sex (health care costs, abortion, adoption, foster care, welfare, prison costs etc.)
 
I guess you miss the good old days of malnourished, uneducated, unclothed children working 14 hours a day on the family farm or in a factory.

Never underestimate the catastrophes a left winger can dream up if there's a prospect of removing the government teat from easy reach.
 
They used to call us bleeding heart liberals--for a good reason...We know how to walk in our brother''s shoes, we are caring and compassionate...That doesn't seem horrible to me....

Compassion is fine and good, and something should be done to help people, but that help being forced at gunpoint from workers who may or may not want it is unethical.

Nothing is free, it all must come from somewhere, so I believe there should be a damn good reason to take someone's money to give it to someone else, and this simply doesn't fit that requirement.
 
Compassion is fine and good, and something should be done to help people, but that help being forced at gunpoint from workers who may or may not want it is unethical.

Nothing is free, it all must come from somewhere, so I believe there should be a damn good reason to take someone's money to give it to someone else, and this simply doesn't fit that requirement.

Good points.

And you are right, this does not even begin to fit the requirement.

We are talking about $1 condoms so that teenagers can have safer sex. One lousy buck.

Not emergency food so that people won't starve.


Any First World nation teenager who is too lazy to go and buy a $1 condom to have safer sex deserves everything they get.

Now in poorest Africa where STD's and skyrocketing birth rates are the norm...this sounds like a very good idea.

But in places where teenagers can VERY easily afford them already?

Come on now.

This smells of people who just blindly support ANY government assistance.
 
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