Would parents still say yes if the doctor said...
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Sadly this is too true. In my youth I wondered why we needed religion, and thought it was a method of control. Now I realize that the general populace is too stupid to be allowed agency, and need a greater power to keep them on the right path. Maybe 1-3% of the worlds population is actually capable of abstract thought, introspection, temporal reasoning, and probably something like 10% are capable of planning ahead.