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?

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"Reality is cumulative and probabilistic. And past experiences has shown humanity that abstinence-only and lack of good sex-ed is bad. So until a culture that is ready to take up the burden of giving kids a good basis of knowledge coalesces, government is justified."

Not having sex-ed doesn't mean sex-ed wouldn't exist.  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.

"Society will suffer by a lack of good sex-ed,"

Not having public sex-ed doesn't mean it would not exist.  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. 

"since there will be more unwanted pregnancies, more STDs et al. "
Sex is the basis of human behavior, for Garm's sake. Also, in a laissez-faire state consumer knowledge is just as importnant as voting. So we should teach consumers to spend their money very carefully and appropriately, by the same maxim."

What you deem 'appropriate' is not necessarilly objectively true.

"It is very difficult to quantify the utilitarian justification of policy decisions."

Utilitarianism sucks.  Violating people's rights to make larger groups of people satisfied is not libertarian. 

"So we look at causation to see some patterns in the froth of uncertainty that is existence. And a lack of sex-ed is not attractive under current circumstances."

And, from a libertarian perspective, higher taxes, and more unnecessary government programs is not attractive either.