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Originally Posted by Dustin
What do you feel people or schools should do about teen pregnancy? Give out condoms? Or is that encouraging teens to have sex?
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I find that ridicule and public humiliation help in behavior modification. For example, my room mate is basically a homophobic, racist hate monger. He used to say inappropriate stuff, in public, quite often. I didn't like it because of the whole guilt by association thing, so I put my time proven strategy to work. Every chance that I was able to make fun of some homophobic or racist **** he said, I took full advantage of it. For example, when he says, "I don't think I would like going to San Fransisco, you know, all the gays walking around...." I interrupt with, "what, living their lives? Yeah, we can't have people in this free society living their lives the way they want can we?" After 2 or 3 months it became less and less of a problem.
Now, if we take this same technique and apply it to those people who are dumb enough to have unsafe sex and ruin their lives by having a child before they can get their drivers license, I think we will see a drastic change for the better. I don't mean we make cheesy BS government PSA's or anything. We're going to have to come together to make fun of these people and make them feel inadequate. When others see the embarrassment on their faces they will think twice about having unprotected sex.
I know it sounds harsh, but the abstinence approach damn sure isn't working and they don't seem to be getting the idea of using condoms despite "society's" insistence.