I think you meant that question to be rhetorical and a hyperbole. However, I live in a deeply conservative state where education like “condoms exist, if you use

I think you meant that question to be rhetorical and a hyperbole. However, I live in a deeply conservative state where education like “condoms exist, if you use them you will prevent pregnancy and disease” is somehow a very disturbing topic to them, and a large number of people spend a lot of money, time, and effort to remove such education from public education. I wish this was hyperbole. It is unfortunately very “normal” Texas politics. The larger point I was trying to make is that technology alone doesn’t dictate our choices and behaviors. Laurence Lessig (Code 2.0) points out four main areas: legal, market, norms, and architecture (technology or code falls into this one). Even if a technology makes something possible (architecture) people can prevent its adoption via other mechanisms. In this case, by using the law and trying to sway public opinion (norms).