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Wherever being "Autistic is a compliment"

Dang, I never thought about it like this, but you are completely right.

Or put another way, the places that strongly encourage you to be your true self.

I always considered this comic to be tongue in cheek, In practice it would not end up like this.

Yeah, we really are steamrolling right into a cyberpunk dystopia, aren't we? Well, if we can even include the world "punk" there. It might as well just be cyber-capitalism in the end.

I think those are two mostly entirely seperate parts of society.

At least try to make a reasoned out argument instead of an emotional attack.

Demystifying and normalizing sex is not a bad thing. Why should we be ashamed of it and our bodies? Making sex out to be such a shameful thing to be hidden away caused far more damage to me than sex positivity ever did. And it's not like it stops sexual abuse either, because, well.. how does a child knowing less cause there to be less sexual abuse? Abusers thrive on ignorance.

Or maybe it would be better for society, that bases its economy on highly educated people mind you, to not force people to go into debt if they want an education?

Like, sure great, your solution is "don't take the debt so that you can get educated, work instead", and then where would that leave society in 10 years?

I feel like every time people say "yeah but it's overall getting better" is missing the first for the trees. Because, yeah, what about climate change? Or the general trends in global politics?

Ever heard of the term "educational setting"? You can also neither use copyrighted works at your workplace, but you can in an educational setting.

There is a big difference between, you know, a space specifically designed to teach kids about all they need to know about the world (including the things you find gross), and a place with an agreed upon environment by the participants to perform a specific task. Not to mention that, yeah, some organizations or places of work do indeed deal with sexual things.

I don't even know why you bring in the workplace honestly, it's completely irrelevant, as its a completely different environment. Neither would it be appropriate for most workplaces to hold a seminar about world war 2 now, would it?

I think it's easy to form an argument from history that were moving towards dark times. It's not all that awful yet, but it's gonna be.

Let's be honest here, most kids at that age have already seen porn. I saw porn as a kid far before I got a proper sex ed.

Not making sex out to be such a shameful thing to be hidden away would be very beneficial. It took me years to properly understand sex the way I do now, and in such a way for it to suit me. Before then I had a lot of weird preconceived notions that were not helpful at all.

Sex is natural and normal, what's the point of turning it into such a big thing that needs to be hidden away? Especially when most kids at that age start to have sexual feelings. It's better to provide them a safe and open environment, as well as making sex just be a normal thing, than basically force kids to get their information elsewhere and experiment without knowledge about consent etc.

Education is like the best way to prevent sexual abuse. It's harder to avoid being sexually abused if you don't know what sex is or what to look out for.

And you won't be able to prevent kids from seeking out information, good or bad, in the age of the internet. So at least make sure they get good information first.

It's not practical given our current technology, but theoretically it could be in the (far) future, in a situation where energy is abundant but matter is not.

Which, admittedly, is likely gonna stay a very niche situation. Mass is the densest form of energy that we know of, after all.