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While the message of “The Bad Touch” is explicitly sexual, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that mating rituals aren’t the only things which show up on the Discovery Channel. Violence in nature is also a big television sell and for many animals in the wild, it’s kill or be killed. The argument which The Bloodhound Gang uses to justify illicit sex could also be used to justify illicit violence. After all, animals are amoral, which means they are not responsible for the damage they inflict on another. In the realm of sexuality, it is often a matter of strength and aggression. The male must not only fend off all masculine rivals, but he also must subdue his sexual prey. Consent is not an issue. Such sexual behavior is called rape in the human realm, though that term fails to surface in the skewed rantings of “The Bad Touch”. Is it any wonder, then, that the stronger a grip evolution has on the pulse of our educational system, the more inclination we see towards both sexual aggression and scholastic violence? Students, it seems, are following a much more straight forward logical progression in regard to ethical behavior than any of their so-called “enlightened” professors.
While I decry the utter debauchery of the message being conveyed in “The Bad Touch”, I applaud the intellectual consistency of The Bloodhound Gang for their ability to pinpoint a logical reality that is escaping most. You want a culprit for the rampant violence and illicit sex in the schoolyard? It’s not the guns, it’s not the condoms, it’s not The Bloodhound Gang. It’s much deeper than that. It goes right to the heart of human inquiry since the question of how we got here has everything to do with the question of how we are then to live. For everyone who has worked so hard to fly in the face of the scientific method and create a God-eliminating religion called evolution... congratulations. You’ve opened the door to autonomy, but nobody it seems (except perhaps the Bloodhound Gang) has the integrity to live with the results. Logic might dictate that it’s time to rethink some things.
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