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I appreciate that this show has brought up a common non addressed conversation: how to discuss sex at a younger age with age appropriate language.  This is something that is often avoided in our culture (US).  Recognizing sex, sexuality, and sex identity are not dormant until someone turns 18, and then gets turned on like a switch.

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I appreciate your commend Nedragsto1 in that it depicts a stance, while I disagree strongly with, that sex is reduced to a mere biological or reptillian brain drive.  I couldn't disagree with this interpretation of sex more.

Ultimately, I find that your distinction between "productive" and "sex" is a false distinction and fundamentally flawed.  Sex, like many things in life, can be used as a mere technique, reduced and mechanical interaction in life.  It can also be experienced as a deepening of being to increase our presence in the world and connections with others.  Discussing it, being open about it, reducing shame, and embracing our humaness I find to be more productive in a society that has overly reduced and mechanized being.

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The conversation has gone as it normally goes on this topic.  One side is concerned about behavioral outcomes (health) and the other side is concerned about moral outcomes, while trying to cloak them as health issues.  The struggle here is not that either side is wrong; but more challenging that both sides are correct.

The challenge is that we live in a culture with diverse morals, cultures, and ideological views and expect to come to some consensus on what the "right" way to teach something is.  Personally, I would oppose anything that limits the conversation and/or discourse, as that in the end is not what education is about.  Exposure to the world is not something that, in my opinion, should be punished with a hemlock milkshake for the teachers.

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This is what concerns me, the view that certain usage of networks should trump others and piracy will be the tool used to get such a policy allowed. The ethical implications of such an ideology is detrimental to continued creation of social capital. I find it interesting that we (US Citizens) critique China for shutting down certain websites as censorship and lack of freedom; but then embrace prioritizing network traffic. While the legal debate ensues, I am more concerned about the ethics of those involved on either side. We live in a time with drastic societal shift on the access and creation of information and knowledge. Rather than spending time debating how should networks be used, I believe we would be better off discussing the validity of intellectual property in modern times.

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