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"Most people break the law and speed as well, but that doesn't mean we should get rid of speeding laws and trying to enforce them for we realize that though many of us speed on occasion, if more and more of us do it and more and more of the time, then things will become dangerous. Food has similar comparisons to sex in many ways. For example, there are rules for how to prepare, handle, eat, what to eat, where to eat, etc. for several reasons. We may want to eat what we want when we want it, and there are natural, biological reasons that compell us to want certain foods, but we can kill ourselves by eating too much of certain, very yummy indeed, foods too often. Also, we try to be as safe and sanitary as we can with our food, from growing it, to processing it, to cooking and cleaning it in restaurants and in our own homes, handling it, storing it, etc. etc. The occasional lapse along the way will indeed happen and may not cause much harm, but if too many do so too often, then you will have serious problems. You do the best you can so that when the "lapses" happen, any harm or potential harm is far less. And too, nobody imagined AIDS at one time. One would be terribly remiss to think that there are not other diseases out there in the world, waiting for the right environment, that could make AIDS look like a difficult to get, walk in the park. Do we really want to open ourselves up to that? Also, just as we are finding out about our food, sanitation, and health concerns, old once easy to treat bacterial diseases are becoming more resistant to our antibiotics. Those old monogamy rules didn't just come out of thin air. No not all "old ways/rules" are always right, but we still might want to listen to at least some of the likely reasons for why this social rule, or those like it, were in place. Again, the occasional digressions in an environment that keeps pushing for more moderation or "controll" may not result in anything bad happening (think speeding for instance), BUT don't let that fool you into thinking that more is ok, for if more and more people do it, more and more often without regulation,,, then your asking for trouble and may end up hurting a lot of innocent people."
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