Come on down to Mardi Gras, baby, and have a good time!

Oh, and be sure to wear a condom if you end up having sex with somebody.

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I see now that you have no agenda, that you are only concerned with our common welfare.

Indeed, let us all carefully contemplate the problems that knee-jerk moderate liberalism has created or contributed to… like the proliferation of sexually transmitted infections after Mardi Gras events.

Something something putative, something something adjusted proverb, something something general moral problem with consumerism explains specific event’s moral elements, something something….

Thanks, Ian! We could all learn a lot from you! Great point!

:)

And, again, the article above nicely points out the need to distribute condoms to prevent the spread of disease.

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There is an element of moral truth in the anti-consumerist mentality, I admit; but for some reason, when it comes to sex it’s a free-for-all, and here we’re supposed to indulge every whim and desire, whether motivated by a committed love or by a wheezing, booze-battered prefrontal cortex, and all because latex covereth a multitude of sins. We’re driving, so to speak, sexual SUVs whose MPG is measured in feet per gallon, but it doesn’t matter because sex–because people–are the ultimate consumer item.

You ever heard of straining gnats and swallowing camels? We’re straining trash and swallowing… Well, we don’t have to get TOO graphic.

And the point, Finn, is not for anyone to think I am clever or superior or whatever. I could hardly care what people I don’t know think of me–as long as they think about the issues.

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I think your comments reflect poorly on you mainly because you have appended them to an article that itself makes entirely reasonable points about a public health issue. Had you simply wanted to express your disdain for the “landfill” stickers or the people “running their brains out,” I’d not have made any reply. You didn’t do that, though. You brought in those two issues to show how clever and superior you are. Now, I’m not saying you might not be both clever and superior. It’s just that *this* effort does not seem to me a success–it wasn’t the best way to attack those practices you deem as deserving of scorn.

So… I think you can find better targets. Probably advice I should take, too, eh?

-food

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I feel I also need to make a point about my disdain for environmentalists, but I am unsure how to disguise my snotty and feckless critique. Ah, well, such are the costs of my moralizing self-satisfaction.

Point made yet?

Everybody have a safe and fun Mardi Gras. Use condoms so you don’t catch nothin’ nasty…

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Thanks,

Chad

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