Dana wrote:
or inadvisable in RL--are an enjoyable and beneficial source of
pleasure
OK, but I'd like to know what you mean by "inadvisable."
Unsafe sex; sex with a risk of unwanted conception; things that involve RL risks of discovery, injury, etc; activities contrary to commitments or promises
Fair enough then.
- 21st Century RL doesn't provide full equality--sexual, economic,
racial,
or on the basis of orientation. If anything, I think the B7 world is
worse,
but there is some interesting light to be shed by one on the other
a) true. b) I'm not sure about the B7 world being worse, but that's a separate thread.
Some of the subscribers to this list are dissatisfied with their country's political system to one degree or another, but I doubt if the ones who live in the US/UK/Australia at any rate think of their country's government as a dictatorship that ruthlessly suppresses its populace (chemically and otherwise).
Definitely not! But I think it's interesting that while the Federation is a dictatorship which ruthlessly suppresses its populace, it also seems to have a degree of gender and racial equality-- something like the Soviet Union was intended to be in theory if not in practice, maybe?
Shane
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