There’s a stupid conversation going around and it’s time that it stopped. Really, it’s pretty much the most asinine conversation that floats around campus. What makes it worse is that Latter-day Saint students will actually debate the issue when really, at the end, nothing has been resolved and everyone feels a little more stupid.

The topic is married students versus single students.

Will you please shoot me in the head now. Listen, the reality is that single students at BYU-Idaho have no idea what it’s like to be married, and married students seem boring and weird because, in actuality, they don’t care about the psychedelic Technicolor world of being single.

Here is my plea to every student — married or single — at BYU-I: if someone starts talking to you about the attitudinal differences between the married student versus the single student, please proceed to roll your eyes and follow up with an arrogant-feeling recitation of the words, “Do we really have to talk about this?”

Why is the BYU-I community bent on perpetuating such a worthless mantra? Yes, of course your married friends don’t hang out with you anymore — you’re not married.

Yes, of course the single students are going to think that you’re weird and treat you like you are different; after all, you are.

Another thing — married students need to stop drawing attention to the fact that they’re married. That means no more jokes about your spouses, no more jabs at the difficulty of marriage and no more “better than thou art” excuses such as, “Well, it’s different for me, I’m married.”

Good for you; you’ve ascended to the next level. Congratulations — now get over yourself.

Single students are worse though; they joke about the dating habits of every other student. The jokes are old and overused. Please, everyone stop asking when someone is going to get married. Just because someone has been on one date does not mean they are going to the temple the next day.

I’ll end the debate right here for you; married students are different from single students because single students are not married. It’s not rocket science.

Please, let’s stop talking about such boring old topics like being married versus being single, and let’s stick to some more fresh and interesting debates like the Honor Code and how long lines are at the Testing Center.