[steve-b]

Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.

When somebody spouts the Brady Bunch line (guns make it easier to kill; therefore guns are evil), I need no further evidence to conclude that the spouter is a source of foolishness and should be disregarded.

[little jeremiah]

So by your reasoning, let small kids and adolescents watch porn, have sex, give 'em condoms - since they're animals and will "do it" anyway?

What's your point?

(BTW, "guns" and "sex" have nothing to do with each other.)

[eastsider]

markomalley's point wasn't that condoms were evil, but that abetting a sinful act was evil:

... it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law

[markomalley]

Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.

When somebody spouts the Brady Bunch line (guns make it easier to kill; therefore guns are evil), I need no further evidence to conclude that the spouter is a source of foolishness and should be disregarded.

Had the above line you quoted been written in 2006, I might agree that it was Pollyanish. However, considering this pre-dates the Brady Bunch by a number of years (it was written in 1968), I believe that passage of time shows us that the words were quite correct. But you can keep up with your fantasizing all you'd like. After all, you do have the right to be wrong in this country. And you have the right to rely upon logical fallacies in your arguments, as well.