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Sex Education, Liberalism, and Autonomy: Bridging the Traditionalist vs. Anti-Traditionalist Gap
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This is not to be lamented since “liberal democracy at its best, in education as in other social
endeavours, will not leave everything as it is.”
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Certainly, liberal public morality and the promotion of autonomy are not exhaustive of
the moral domain. There may be other distinctive moral educational ends that parents and other
citizens wish to promote. However, the liberal state, being grounded in a set of core values (with
liberty and equality as the most central values), is not only justified in promoting the values that
will safeguard the prospective interest in autonomy of its young citizens, but it is obligated to do
so. At its best, autonomy-promoting sex education will better the health, reasoning, empathy, and
morality of the next generation. Although liberal sex education may not be optimal from the
standpoint of achieving commonly desired ends (like a maximum reduction in teen pregnancy
and STDs) by any means necessary, it will make the greatest strides it can - working to create
citizens able to make sexual decisions in an autonomous, responsible, and moral fashion while
demonstrating respect for the right of diverse others to do likewise.
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Callan, 13.
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38
This is not to be lamented since “liberal democracy at its best, in education as in other social
endeavours, will not leave everything as it is.”
95
Certainly, liberal public morality and the promotion of autonomy are not exhaustive of
the moral domain. There may be other distinctive moral educational ends that parents and other
citizens wish to promote. However, the liberal state, being grounded in a set of core values (with
liberty and equality as the most central values), is not only justified in promoting the values that
will safeguard the prospective interest in autonomy of its young citizens, but it is obligated to do
so. At its best, autonomy-promoting sex education will better the health, reasoning, empathy, and
morality of the next generation. Although liberal sex education may not be optimal from the
standpoint of achieving commonly desired ends (like a maximum reduction in teen pregnancy
and STDs) by any means necessary, it will make the greatest strides it can - working to create
citizens able to make sexual decisions in an autonomous, responsible, and moral fashion while
demonstrating respect for the right of diverse others to do likewise.
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Callan, 13.
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