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But in both cases, the first assumption isn\'t true (not driving a car doesn\'t mean you can\'t be hit by one, abstinence education does nothing to prevent STD transmission \'\'at all\'\' if you actually have sex; in both cases, evidence strongly suggests that people will do the thing you don\'t want them to do anyway and all you\'re doing is making it less safe) and so you\'re into another fallacy, Begging The Question, since your premise is at least as questionable as your conclusion. Africa has stratospheric STD rates \'\'and\'\' no condom use, which strongly suggests abstinence education is \'\'not\'\' an effective method of combating [=STDs=].
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But in both cases, the first assumption isn\\\'t true (not driving a car doesn\\\'t mean you can\\\'t be hit by one, abstinence education does nothing to prevent STD transmission \\\'\\\'at all\\\'\\\' if you actually have sex; in both cases, evidence strongly suggests that people will do the thing you don\\\'t want them to do anyway and all you\\\'re doing is making it less safe) and so you\\\'re into another fallacy, Begging The Question, since your premise is at least as questionable as your conclusion. Africa has stratospheric STD rates \\\'\\\'and\\\'\\\' no condom use, which strongly suggests abstinence education is \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' an effective method of combating [=STDs=].
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Regardless, to shore up this conclusion anti-condom advocates do indeed use claims that 98% performance for a barrier method is inadequate and so it shouldn\'t be used because it is not perfect, and thus use this fallacy. The fact that there\'s a \
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It should also be pointed out that \\\'\\\'most\\\'\\\' people suggest \\\"abstinence education\\\" of a sort be part of fighting [=STDs=]; casual sex with strangers is generally discouraged by awareness campaigns, it\\\'s only the Christian Fundamentalists who want it as the \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' option, so the idea that condom use precludes teaching people to keep it in their pants if they don\\\'t know where they\\\'re putting it is invalid.
Regardless, to shore up this conclusion anti-condom advocates do indeed use claims that 98% performance for a barrier method is inadequate and so it shouldn\\\'t be used because it is not perfect, and thus use this fallacy. The fact that there\\\'s a \\\"second half\\\" to their argument (assuming abstinence education is 100% effective and precludes any other methods of preventing [=STDs=], which are the \\\'\\\'premises\\\'\\\' of the argument against the 98% effective method) doesn\\\'t mean the first \\\"half\\\" doesn\\\'t exist.
Regardless, to shore up this conclusion anti-condom advocates do indeed use claims that 98% performance for a barrier method is inadequate and so it shouldn\\\'t be used because it is not perfect, and thus use this fallacy. The fact that there\\\'s a \\\"second half\\\" to their argument (assuming abstinence education is 100% effective and precludes any other methods of preventing [=STDs=], which are the \\\'\\\'premises\\\'\\\' of the argument against the 98% effective method) doesn\\\'t mean the first \\\"half\\\" doesn\\\'t exist.
