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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
Just because something happened naturally through nature, i.e. homosexuality, does that necessarily correlate to something we should accept? What about murder and rape and all of the naturally occurring things that we universally agree are bad? It sounds like you're taking a neutral position -- that like a pendulum, things swing back and forth, and nature has a way of constantly restoring balance to its own creation.
I'm not sure I agree with this.
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Nice post, allow me to expand
I define my own "good and bad" (and I prefer nonjudgment of either) based on needless suffering to individuals. I know the spectrum of suffering intimately and judge my entire life based on as far down that spectrum as I am capable of seeing.
In the case of murder and rape, "obviously" (let's not get into it), it causes needless suffering and harm to other individuals. And for personal, ape-like, erotic power satisfaction. I would definitely say that while nature produced these, that is because their genetic traits somehow have survival advantage. This is unfortunate, but we humans are blessed with rationality to hopefully eventually tame these demons of our biological history.
Homosexuality, on the other hand, does not seem to cause any suffering to other human beings --- in fact, the
oppression of homosexuals by others who feel fearful and threatened of "the other" in this case has caused
a great deal of emotional (and in the case of hate crimes throughout history, physical) pain and suffering.
Homosexual people are still people. They have feelings and emotions and love just as deeply as us hetero's do. To think of them as anything different is just a delusional idea society (over thousands of years) has imprinted upon your psyche, one that we would all do well to do away with, given how the future seems to be panning out.
Gay or Straight, being forbid from being with/loving/seeing someone you love, on ANY level of love, is one of the worst tortures a human can endure. The "Reason" of Nature producing homosexuals is not my argument. My argument is that, their existence in and of themselves, given that there a multitude of them, who seem to have the same attractions to each other, really causes no harm, but really, unites humanity further in one of many societal niches.