Should morality reflect reality or should our reality be frozen in time, immune from technical advances, so that it stays relevant to an old morality? Yah… if children are a technically unavoidable result of sex, then one set of policies is optimum, if children are avoidable, another set of policies will optimize.
Women in modern societies have violence of various sorts much less often perpetrated against them, and have many fewer life choices precluded to them than in the past. It would be an odd definition of respect indeed which rated women less respected now than they were in the days of less effective birth control.
if children are a technically unavoidable result of sex, then one set of policies is optimum, if children are avoidable, another set of policies will optimize.
And if you’re Roman Catholic, having children is the goal you’re optimizing for.
Should morality reflect reality or should our reality be frozen in time, immune from technical advances, so that it stays relevant to an old morality? Yah… if children are a technically unavoidable result of sex, then one set of policies is optimum, if children are avoidable, another set of policies will optimize.
Women in modern societies have violence of various sorts much less often perpetrated against them, and have many fewer life choices precluded to them than in the past. It would be an odd definition of respect indeed which rated women less respected now than they were in the days of less effective birth control.
And if you’re Roman Catholic, having children is the goal you’re optimizing for.