The idea is that even if contraception is sometimes beneficial
within a marriage, but if contraception is equated to marriage,
then the concept of marriage is degraded, because marriage should
be much much more than just contraception alone.
Thus stated succinctly. I can't help it if you refuse to read
it.
I didn't suggest they're 'mutually exclusive'. You're the one who
suggested that. And then you went on to say why they're not
mutually exclusive. Except no one else here said they're mutually
exclusive to start with.
Certainly I agree 'contraceptives' would be helpful to poor
developing countries. I'm not too sure though that 'sex toys' would
be one of the high-priority things developing countries need. As
for whether we should have sex toys and the ads widely available in
S'pore, that is still an open question.
Values are hard to define, but they are something that can be felt.
I'm not as well-versed in language as you, using arcane phrases
such as 'utilitarian-Jeremy Bentham-what not', so I don't feel
justified in pretending to be qualified to try to define values. A
failure to define mainstream values does not mean they don't exist.
A lot of societies have values, which are difficult to describe
fully in words, partly because values are fuzzy, and definitions
cannot cover all situations encountered in real-life.
Values also shift over time. They are not laws, or a constitution.
If you have some urls how other countries have successfully defined
their mainstream values, you might want to provide them here for
our reference. If these are hard to find, perhaps there's a reason,
that it's because most countries recognize the difficulty of trying
to define and encode intangible things. I can't do any
better.
Yet that has not deterred governments or watchdog bodies elsewhere
from stepping in to reject ads, publications, radio shows, TV
programs, movies which may cross over fuzzy lines of good taste or
public morality, etc etc, in many countries. The lack of 'values'
definitions satisfactory to you has not stopped many conservative
countries' govts from doing what they need to do. The practice is
not unique to Singapore. We may have to be content with a lack of a
set of hard-and-fast definitions for now.
Seeing PAP's style in my post? That's a good one. Who's been
attending many political rallies? Not me.
Your posts tend to put words into my mouth.
It's good to have an opinion, you're entitled to your own opinion
and to argue it, but don't falsify my opinion. I never said any two
particular things are 'mutually exclusive'.
