Western models can be lead off the reservation pretty easily, at least at this point. I’ve gotten some pretty gnarly un-PC “opinions” out of ChatGPT. So if people are influenced by that kind of stuff, it does seem to be hurting in the way the PRC is worried about.

Wasn’t puberty later back then too? Like people weren’t waiting around post puberty saving themselves for whatever, puberty just happened alongside full adult body maturation, not before as often happens today.

I don’t really understand why it’s necessary to assume anything at all. Can the statement not be taken at face value?

If we are all going around assuming 99% of the positions of people we are engaging with, what is the point of discussing anything?

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to come in and scale better.

If you don’t have hegemony you just need isolation. Bans on premarital sex still work for the Amish and largely for LDS AFAIK. If the group is large enough the isolation isn’t socially harmful. Humans aren’t made to each personally interact with thousands of people anyway, from an evolutionary perspective.

I think religion just needs an update. We have found out a lot about the world since the legacy ones were authored, and actually much of that discovery occurred on a foundation of those legacy religions. We have just outgrown those particular religions. We need a new one.