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Some of you people really need to get laid...yikes. Don't you guys remember being teenagers? Or maybe you guys never had sexual urges and you certainly didn't face being told that you only have a few more months to live at the age of 15 and having to live with knowing about all the things you would never get a chance to do. I doubt most of you would be sitting around arguing about "immorality" and begging that someone would do something to alleviate your pain.

Oh great. So we should be able to indulge any fantasy we want because we're dying? Well I got a news flash for ya ace. We're all dying. Your philosophy is the same one that's been around for hundreds of years. Eat drink and be merry, for tommorrow we die.

I can't believe that there are people on a conservative board advocating a Porky's mentality for kids.

What's stopping you from banging a prostitute? You're dying too ya know. You could actually die before the kid does.

I can't believe that there are people on a conservative board advocating a Porky's mentality

It surprises me more that they believe non-relatives can interfere with the parents' decisions for their own child. The people interfering were not relatives of any kind of the child's, they really had no business at all doing what they did. The parents have every right to sue them and take them to court.

But we're not dying right away. Most of us can reasonably expect to live out a full life and therefore we can adopt a moral posture which takes into account that fact. This boy wasn't going to live a full life and consequentially his moral posture is slightly different.

In other words, as I posited earlier in the thread, why is sex before marriage often considered morally wrong - it's largely because of long-term consequences of the behavior. As beings who can comphrehend the future we are obliged to act in the present to protect ourselves in the future. If we have no future, I don't see the reason why we should act as if we should.