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> I think this shows that a technical solution trumps social solutions. If Australia had relied on telling children not to have unprotected sex, the HPV rate w
by Jedd 9y ago
> I think this shows that a technical solution trumps social solutions. If Australia had relied on telling children not to have unprotected sex, the HPV rate would not have moved much. Now, a simple vaccine is eradicating cervical HPV.
We know telling people to not have sex doesn't work (this is what most people hear, and for many young people is functionally the same, as don't have unprotected sex).
We have HSV, high teenage pregnancy rates, etc in countries that have pushed those approaches as would-be solutions.
Taking a very specific case of trying to suppress young human sex drive with words, and extrapolating that to the general case around technical hacks versus knowledge and informed decision making is a bit disingenuous.
And 'simple' vaccine?
We just last week got rid of the deputy Prime Minister who, at the time this was being debated (debated!) claimed that the proverbial 'some people' didn't like the idea of giving their twelve year old daughters a licence to be promiscuous. I shit thee nay.
- andrewstuart 9y ago>> licence to be promiscuous From Barnaby Joyce? Ahem.
- thiagocsf 9y agoThis Hitchens quote is so relevant right now: “Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.”
- Intermernet 9y agoYep, So ironic I want to cry. For anyone not from Australia who doesn't understand this, feel free to Google his name for a timeline of world-class hypocrisy. Still, why are we discussing his personal life and not his abysmal policy decisions?
- lostlogin 9y agoBecause he made a point of bringing that stuff into his politics, repeatedly. You can’t make up quotes as good as the real ones. “I think that every child has a right, absolute right to know her or his mother and father and also … should be given the greatest opportunity to know their biological mother and father,” Mr Joyce said. Somehow that’s in refer to gay marriage, not his own philandering.
- Intermernet 9y agoYes, maybe I should rephrase. Why are we discussing his personal life exclusively, and not his personal life and his abysmal policy decisions. I'm referring to the media in Australia, not our discussion on HN.