Teen Sex & Drugs

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TJ forgets that during that time they did not have The Pill; kids are having more sex now, there are just better ways of preventing pregnancy.

The problem is that our culture and biological hard-wiring are constantly having a tug o' war. While culture tends to get the better of the 'hard-wiring' and forces it to adapt, occasionally the culture can bite off more than it can chew, and humans become stressed out to counter-productive levels. I am not against teenagers acting poorly, it is their nature, our biology hasn't caught up to our fast-evolving-culture. We (as a culture) use things like drugs and sex to emotionally escape the stresses of life, and at the moment we are being stressed to new heights (the brain will do crazy things to protect the ego). Drugs and sex are coping mechanisms for us to momentarily escape the harshness of our environment. While our ancestors may have have been more stressed physically, they were not as stressed emotionally as humans are today. Today we are constantly pressured emotionally... and nearly everyone feels frequently overwhelmed, it is this feeling of being overwhelmed that we humans want to escape. When the brain is able to catch up to our more modern culture, people will feel less overwhelmed; this will cause the amount of unhealthy-sex and drug-use to go down culturally acceptable levels.

There is a reason we have the morality that we do. I like to think that when people become self-descrutive, it is a sign that evolution is still busy plugging away, improving the human species by weeding out the bad genes from the good ones. The human species needs people to be self-destructive when they are unable to cope, this is the force of group selection rearing its head. Humans have a self-destruct button for a reason.

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