I think the progressive default is that individuals don’t have the burden to lead their sex lives in way their family approves of.
When you present “We don’t know how their families would react on an aggregate scale” as an argument you question that progressive default.
Homosexuality is as good of an example where parents can object to the sexual habits of their children as this example is.
So, I think, the question becomes are individuals responsible for trying to keep a good equilibrium in place?
I do think it makes sense to follow clearly beneficial social norms for the sake of society as a whole.
In this case you don’t make any specific case of why the social norm is worth protecting and a huge part of why the norm exists is due reasons that became obsolete with the introduction of birth control.
I don’t want to explore how traditional morality has advantages, because that’s a hard question and not something I have any reason to think I’d be all that good at.
Isn’t your whole post about how rationality leads to the violation of the morality that traditions prescribe?
I think the progressive default is that individuals don’t have the burden to lead their sex lives in way their family approves of.
When you present “We don’t know how their families would react on an aggregate scale” as an argument you question that progressive default.
Homosexuality is as good of an example where parents can object to the sexual habits of their children as this example is.
I do think it makes sense to follow clearly beneficial social norms for the sake of society as a whole.
In this case you don’t make any specific case of why the social norm is worth protecting and a huge part of why the norm exists is due reasons that became obsolete with the introduction of birth control.
Isn’t your whole post about how rationality leads to the violation of the morality that traditions prescribe?