Common sense
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Editor,
It’s just common sense. We’ve all heard that used as the final argument for any number of positions. But is it? Is it common, and more importantly, is it sense or sensible?
Despite solid evidence to the contrary, we’re told by some it is just common sense that providing teenagers with honest information about prophylactics and birth control will increase the likelihood of premarital sex. In fact, teens with and without comprehensive sexuality information initiate sex at about the same ages. Information isn’t the problem, although lack of that information and access to safe sexual practices creates problems that disrupt families, education, and futures.
On the other hand, we’re told that access to weapons designed to rapidly and horrifically kill many people doesn’t inspire interest in doing so. It is just common sense that only people who would be mass murderers anyway will use them.
Odd, isn’t it, that so many see honest human sexuality education as a danger that will corrupt the morals we believe we’ve instilled in our children, but think surrounding them with weapons designed for mass killings won’t.
Suzanne Parson
St. Ignatius
