A Darwinian reason for homosexuality

[redbaron]

Awaiting further GeneralPatton posts to add to the comedic value of this thread.

GeneralPatton, please respond.

 

[BigApplePi]

I suppose you would say a culture in which weaker, women, those of lower caste... are oppressed is not in the moral right. You might even say the same for a lifestyle that, say, has a destructive effect on the environment. Homosexuality, in GeneralPatton's opinion has a destructive effect on our species. He's not really against homosexuals, he just thinks the phenomenon of homosexuality should disappear or at least not be promoted the way it is being promoted today. That's all assuming I get what he's saying right. Well, that's the kind of reasoning I've encountered before... to be more specific, that's what my mom thinks.
Well I didn't really plan to reply to this thread since I'm not sure of my own opinion, but I had to react to your: "I will disapprove only if they try to impose or otherwise interfere with me," which I think we can now agree you were wrong about. At least that was the purpose of my first two sentences.

I've lost you on how I am wrong. Your 1st sentence doesn't fit, does it? They are morally okay. As for the 2nd sentence, it depends on how bad it affects the environment. Playing noisy radios or shouting on cell phones in public will affect me, but wasting gasoline won't.

 

[cerebedlam]

homosexuality is a preference. Studies with twins do not indicate any genetic predispositions.

Note, any time identical twins are offered up for adoption, they are separated and given to different sets of parents so that the old debate of nature versus nurture or genetics versus environment can be addressed longitudinally by studying identical genetic profiles in different environments.

As far as I know, there has been nothing in the literature that has refuted that homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle, so the popular "I was born this way" justification, is more of a politically convenient myth than anything else...

Have to assume that this was written simply to get a rise out of us, and you're not actually of this opinion...Can't envision any scenario where an Introverted Thinker could possibly be this blind to the emperical evidence bombarding us from every side...This position could only be held in order to justify and defend some type of incongruent and intellectually feebe religious belief...which, again, is not something that, by definition, should be part of the make-up of an Introverted Thinker.

Studies of twins absolutely DO show a much higher incidence of homosexuality among identical twins...Studies consistently return these results...And, studies of families that have produced a steady succession of members from only one gender, display a MUCH higher incidence of homosexuality in latter siblings...

Meaning that, in families where there is only brothers, or only sisters, the latter children in those families are much more likely to be homosexual...These findings are also consisent with the dictates of a Darwinian reproductive formula that favors an equal distrubtion of the sexes, i.e. 50/50...

Common experience also shows us that indicators of a child's 'sexuality' are already evident and on display to the observant eye even prior to the child reaching puberty...This is the most 'common sense' reason to believe that sexual proclivity HAS NOTHING to do with choice, but is rather, genetic...

But, the largest piece of evidence in favor of the genetic predetermination of homosexuality is that, just in these past ten years, geneticists have located A GROUP OF GENES which seem to be present, and working together in some still undefined way, in members of the gay population...To hold beliefs which run contrary to established science, and the dictates of reasoning and common sense, IS NOT intellectually justifiable, and should be abhored by thinking man.

 

[redbaron]

Have to assume that this was written simply to get a rise out of us, and you're not actually of this opinion...

He's like this all the time.

Also, I love this thread so much.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

He's like this all the time.

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[redbaron]

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