Originally posted by: amail1601
You know what, it's not even about morals or religion. Sure, religion says it's wrong to indulge in pre-marital relationships. Society says it's wrong. And they are right. Not because it makes the persons involved less 'pure' or 'bad', but because it is not healthy.
Religion and social rules were made up to teach people right from wrong and to scare them into doing the 'right' thing.
Take for example a solar eclipse. Thanks to modern science we know that the sun's rays are extremely harmful then, and people become especially careless then coz they think "the sun's dim, won't hurt our eyes", so we either don't look at the sun directly, or use various tools, and don't eat or drink because various microorganisms are supposed to multiply at that time.
But still there are people who don't have access to this kind of scientific reasoning. And especially in old days people didn't know all this. For them (in Hindu mythology), a story was made up of how during an eclipse Rahu eats up the sun and it is a time that people should pray and take baths and not eat our drink or look at the sun or they'll get into trouble.
Same way social and religious rules were made up to protect people from STDs and stuff like teenage pregnancies and heartbreak coz your spouse is running off and having affairs with 10 people. But as time went by, these rules got out of hand and these things became a matter of 'shame'.
Either way - whether a person says that pre-marital intimacy is ok if the persons involved want it and are responsible or are very deeply in love, or whether another says that it is morally wrong - both extremes are not right simply because the argument is wrong. 😆
Sorry for the history/mythology lecture, but lately my Hons syllabus is making me think too much about this 'issue'. 😕😆😆😆