Step away from the bandwagon and no one will get hurt

[lalouve]

I have no idea what's happened to my country. Topless swimming gets forbidden at swimming pools, people whine about the damage to children who happen to see a topless woman, and now the media is having a good time with "the chastity trend" - which, much like the "sex and the city trend" it's supposed to have replaced, isn't.

The last drop for me was

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Why o why diss palliatives?

[oursin]

Yup, like that thing about certain things being sticking-plaster type solutions: Sometimes all you need is a sticking-plaster. Or those people who let their kids stumble round in a myopic fog in the belief that glasses would make it worse. Or those creepy 'throw away your drugs and think positive' self-help types.

Alleviating the pains of existence: Not A Bad Thing.

Re: Why o why diss palliatives?

[lalouve]

Really, yes. Life holds enough pain as it is, I see no reason to diss whatever people do to alleviate it.