Debate: Should condoms be made available in high schools?
Side: yes

Well, in an ideal world, welfare and medicaid would not exist and everyone would have to make their own money.In an idea world dogs would have rubber teeth and cops would have wooden legs. We live in the real world. This means that applying your idealised notions has real consequences, like people starving to death or freezing in winter because they cannot afford to live.This is why I get rather tetchy towards libertarians on this issue. People are dying and are the brink of death because libertarians have enough influence in the republic party that laws are opposed which might save them. To say nothing of working class families working two and three jobs per parent, while the rich have effectively plundered seven percent of their wealth in the last thirty years. Then one hears rhetoric like "redistribution of wealth is socialism! we can't just give free money to the poor, you communist!" all the while redistribution already occurred in favour of the wealthy. Where were the republicans and libertarians complaining then?Aside from that rant, I'll give you a very real example which comes from my area of experience. Over at the state hospital where I live we have men and women who are insane, crazy, demented, psychotic, basically incapable of living in the free world. The hospital basically functions as a high-security storage unit for crazy people. They must be constantly watched, even when kept in four-point restraints. Some of these people are necrophiliacs, paedophiles, eye-fetishists, schizophenics, the malignantly narcissistic, deluded, etc. Almost all of them are violent offenders who have either killed people, strangled people, gouged out the eyes of children, molested little girls, etc. The point is, this is a full-time, endless job. Now I can tell you some stories of supreme state incompetence in handling these people, but I also am quite certain that without that additional support of the state many of these people would be on the street. I don't think the private sector is big enough to handle it all. My point is that this is part of what our taxes pay for, a lot of money goes to it, and it probably wouldn't fit in your ideal world.That is the world I'm looking forward to. Just because we have a structure now-a-days that encourages bad behavior, doesn't mean that we should just build based on that structure. Tear it down and start again. It exists because it is better than when it was absent. These are all imperfect, but still necessary steps to work towards better social conditions.And anyway, free condoms do not stop irresponsible behavior. If a teenager decides "I should get condoms", he will buy just as much as he will go after a free one. I don't mind, however, a vending machine on school grounds for condoms. It's the tax-payers part that I do mind.It's really a choice between paying for condoms or paying for public medicine associated with the consequences of lack of available condoms. If you charge students, and they cannot afford condoms (they're kids after all), then you pay for the consequences either way.I'm just looking at this as a matter of numbers. It seems to me that just making condoms amply available would reduce the costs associated with pregnancy and disease substantially. It's kind of like how healthcare workers will make available free needles to areas where drug addicts live. Sure, it's bad behaviour to reuse needles and share them, and sure we're encouraging more of it by not putting them through rehabilitation, but at the end of the day it's cheaper to provide clean needles to reduce the health costs associated with treating the diseases.but, if you and other people feel that condoms should be available for free at High Schools, than you can merely donate to a cause of putting free condoms in a High School. you don't have to get other people, like me, involved.Why? You're a part of society, after all.