These are the words my older brother uttered—pronounced, more like—decreed, even—as I, a ten-year-old transitioning from elementary school to middle, debated the merits of various instruments I might learn, in band class.
I feel you’re on stronger ground, Duncan, when you say that the status quo is unfairly blocking some people from activities they spontaneously want to do and (you argue) safely could in a different society.
I feel less comfortable when you dig for reasons that other people’s aversions to touch or sexual activity or whatever might be “unhealthy” (against some standard I’m not sure you’ve made a case for the universal healthiness of).
(I’m sort of dropping you into the deep end; you can probably figure out what sort of conversation it was.)
