the hard to swallow pill nobody wants to even look at is that the old norms regarding sex (and other previously socially regulated activities) have simply become obsolete

social norms don't exist in a vacuum, they serve practical purposes https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1352862695289049088

those who favor the old norms think they understand that norms serve purposes ("chesterton's fence!") and make a huge show of describing all the ingenious ways in which "social technology" works

and yet the secular world moves

on the other hand, those who favor the new norms think the old ones didn't serve any purpose and that there is no lesson on how humans work to be taken from them

i'm with default fren - both are idiots