>>14317529>sex for purposes other than procreation would be damaging to the long-term survival of a small community, and spread STDsOverpopulation and STD epidemics are still concerning problems. Condoms and other anti-conceptives aren't risk-free and error-free, unlike abstinence.
Most religious laws can't really be justified under purely secular, utiliarian reasoning, but it's kind of odd to see how religiosity rates remained at relatively high rates for hundreds of years and started plummeting less than half a century ago in many places in both Europe and the Americas. Even though empiricism and skepticism had existed for thousands of years, they weren't really embraced by the masses until quite recently (and even then, it's usually mixed together with a deep, almost religious admiration of folk icons, pop culture figures, and a replacement of theological-based thinking with scientificist-based thinking, where terms in vogue from the natural sciences and technology are put in place of common expressions or are used as metaphors for common experiences).
>>14317534Yes, I am a yellow-orange skinned frog who lives in a small pond out in the wilderness, in a small, wooded valley between two hills.
>>14317536A person who does misdeeds in spite of being conscious of their severity cannot be anything but either malicious or insensible.
>>14317545Humans are still members of the same species as the one that existed 50k years ago. There still is such a thing as antisocial behavior and people in general do not hold a good opinion of murderers, thieves, rapists, and torturers.
