So Boobs on Bikes will go ahead, Judge Mathers said the decision was made by considering the law not morals. Also she said "some councillors may deem the parade to be offensive" but she did not agree, even if it was tacky.
Yes, laws need not to be morals. The struggle for abolition of slavery comes to mind.
Primary school principal Mrs Armstrong is struggling too, she said "reports of increasingly violent and unacceptable behaviour in primary schools were indicative of a society losing its moral base and leaving schools to deal with the result."
Yup, we've heard that one before. Yes, Auckland Mayor John Banks said something similar a while ago as well. He said he is against the Boobs on Bikes. Yet the laws, or the system, is structured such that as a Mayor, he can't really do much about the parade either. What a shame.
Elsewhere, the headline reads "Doctor facing charges of sex with patient". The Health and Disability Commissioner found that under certain circumstance, even if sex was mostly consensual, a relationship can be deem unethical.
The current "go easy", generally "non-confrontational", libral, "it's-ok-as-long-as-it-suits-you" culture in the society is rampant.
Medical advances, as with most things, can be a two way sword. One example is the pill. FDA approved in the 50s and highly effective as a mean of contraception. In human history, never before had sexual activity been so divorced from reproduction. Morals aside, the social consequences of pre-martial sex and promiscuity is probably beyond the imagination of those who developed the pill in the first place. It's interesting to know Japan didn't approve the use of the pill till 1999.
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