It bothers me that we live in a society that prefers to deal with symptoms rather than problems (ie, the cause of the symptoms). Drugs are given for high blood pressure rather than dealing with the hyper-tension that is typically the cause of it. Guns may be taken away from everyone instead of dealing with the violent behavior of the minority. Society has chosen to deal with STDs, immorality, and infidelity by providing condoms rather than advocating morality. I can imagine how society will soon be dealing with the problem of drug addiction. A condom vending machine in a high school bathroom has just as much ethics as a clean needle vending machine in a public restroom or a life-like mannequin of yourself to sleep in your bed so your spouse won't know you're away having an affair.
We need to get to the root causes of our emotionally and physically unhealthy symptoms. There's freedom there, but not in masking the problem.
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