about Sexual Education...

One of the many problems in the debate over abortion is the fact people get pregnant in the first place. many talk about birth control, but what of personal responsibility and understanding of sex, pregnancy, and child birth in general? What about the sexual education taught to our children in school, or the lack thereof?

Many beleive that teaching children abstiance is the way, the only way, and everything else is playing dice with chemicals. Others say that properly educated children informed for not only abstianace, but also personal responsibility, contriceptives, and understanding of the remifications of sexual behavior would provide a better well rounded understanding and ability to choose their own sexual path.

what do you think about how children should be taught? at what age? in the school or in the home? and what should sex be taught as? As a negative -something to steer clear of and avoided till 'grown up'- or a positive -something wonderful, natural, but not without its ups, downs, and risks?

>>8 "It means it would be in the hands of private individuals/the private sector.  Government is not justified unless its purpose is expressly to provide for the continuity of a relatively free country." Well that is a gamble, and it could be a pyrrhic victory. If public ed should go it will do so incrementally.
"It will be there if there is a market for it.  Furthermore, the only ones who would suffer are those who are too stupid or too irresponsible to take care of themselves." Some things shouldn't have to be justified with a presence on the market.  Also, I believe the suffering of others apply to me sooner or later, so I would pay taxes for my own benefit.
"What you deem 'appropriate' is not necessarilly objectively true." O rly?
"Utilitarianism sucks.  Violating people's rights to make larger groups of people satisfied is not libertarian." I am too reality-based for that. Since reality is chaos we look for patterns and causation. If people benefit from paying for a certain faculty they should do so, it is in their own interest.
"And, from a libertarian perspective, higher taxes, and more unnecessary government programs is not attractive either." How can a certain taxation that causes a net good be unneccesary? I'm not certain if it causes a net good but if it does I'm ready to pay and to vote to make others pay with me. I'll look at the facts first, make no mistake.