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Comment Re:Sounds like a bad idea to me (Score 1) 470

The witches in the Wicca religion are the witches the Christians burned. They might not have mystical powers but they have a lot of the same paraphernalia and rituals. The witches in our cultural memory are stereotypes aimed at these people. There is not two distinct ideas of witches, there is one real group of people called witches and the propaganda aimed at demonozing them. They might not really go around hexing our crops, but they very much are witches.

Comment Sounds like a bad idea to me (Score 0) 470

The point of school is it give people a background is solid useful skills and knowledge, not tell them what to believe.
What is next, the pseudoscience of global warming? Why evolution have never been proved?

And Witches exist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It is a real religion with a large following that dates back many years. Just because the Christian church has replace publicly burning them for publicly denouncing their existent does not make it any less oppression.

Comment Re:Sure, but... (Score 1) 392

How are you going to solve this problem with space exploration?
Even if we assume Star Trek style technology (which is extremely unlikely to ever happen), and unlimited resources (an impossibility), you would still need a fleet of several thousand TNG Enterprises, used solely to bring people to other planets, to just keep up with daily births/deaths.

Comment Re:Who? How? (Score 1) 196

But this is not a keyboard/computer password. Allowances are made for less effective input devices. If extra spaces are a common problem when using Xbox text input, no one would think twice about it. Also, it is possible they just did not allow whitespace in a password, so instead of a warning they just removed it at creation and use (so it would work even if they thought your password has a space in it).

Comment Re:Ethical is irrelevant. (Score 1) 402

There is not a single law the preventives 16 yos in any society I have every heard of from having sex. It is perfectly normal and expected.
16 yo is almost certainly the most common marrying/child bearing age on the planet.
And consent laws start at 12 around the globe. I do not have statistics but I believe 12 is likely the most common age of consent the world over (I know that is were it starts in Mexico [they have some gradient I hear]). It is only modern, radical Christian countries that TRY TO prevent people who are psychologically and biologically designed to have sex from enjoying a natural and necessary activity for half their lives.

Comment Re:Ethical is irrelevant. (Score 1) 402

The girls are already pregnant, and the show reduced future pregnancies. So I do not know what you are complaining about.

I had not heard anything about it being strictly out of wedlock, or course it is always a poor choice to get pregnant out of marriage. But 16 yo is not bad, she would already of been fertile for like 5 years.

Comment Re:Ethical is irrelevant. (Score 1) 402

I had never heard of that show, but I would say that is not at all the same thing.
People want families, so that is a lot less horrendous then encouraging young girls to seek out pop star careers, or something else guaranteed to be a poor choice.
And the end result was a reduction in teen pregnancy...

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