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You didn’t present me with a similar situation. You created a false choice, and no I didn’t “play” because accepting other people’s logical fallacies accomplishes nothing.

Here’s the basic reality:
There are things you quite simply cannot learn without doing. Nobody think you could learn to drive without some behind the wheel time. And with good reason, while you can learns lots of theory and all the laws until you actually FEEL a REAL car REALLY responding (or not responding) to what you’re ACTUALLY doing you’re missing vital information about how to drive. Until you actually know what it feels like to have a car not turning as sharply as you want because you’re going too fast you can’t know what it’s like to have a car not turning as sharply as you want because you’re going too fast.

And many things are similar. Drinking definitely. A large part of the effects of drinking is having your body not do what you want it to do because there’s too much booze in it. And just like the driving you can’t know what it feels like until you’ve found out what it feels like.

And as for fornicating responsibly, most folks really don’t understand WHY they need to do that until they get some phone call about what disease they might have or what human being might have been created. You can read all the books in the world, get all the parental lectures possible, but until that “oh $#!+” moment comes, kind of like when the car is going to run into a poll because you’re going to fast for the turn, you don’t really KNOW what they meant.