Moonlighting wrote:
Homosexuality is not just biological, it is caused by environment as well, usually the behaviour and relation between parents and children. To claim that it is 100% genetic is just as ideological as the social acceptance or reject of it. And what about transgender, is it genetic? :)
There is no coherent society without norms and you can't expect to have a functioning society on the long term if it is built on a "help yourself" model, where everybody will choose behaviours like if they were picking from a restaurant menu. I'm not saying that people who don't comply with the mainstream should be abducted, sent to Auschwitz and cut into tiny pieces (certainly not!), I just mean that the mainstream should prevail culturally, legally and morally. Tolerance but not normalization. And at a time where people easily cross the border between freedom and anarchy, I will also regret the fact that "respect for difference" is too often used to merely tolerate mediocrity.
The mainstream should prevail legally? Meaning the government has a right to regulate wat u do in ur own bedroom? If thats your opinion ur a very twizted fascist indeed! If homosexuality is completely environmental then how come there are gay animals? I understand there very well may be environmental factors but there is definitely genetic factors in human behavior as well!
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=20718Yes societies have norms but norms are not always morally or ethically right! They are considered ethical for the time but if u look back a few hundred years or even 50 years u will discover those norms would b scorned today! Like certain professions being "males only" and the norm for voters being "white only". "functioning" is an opinion. Yes the old systems of segregation and gender norms functioned but they were very oppressive!
Gays will be allowed to marry in 50 years in most 1st world countries wether or not u like it! The only argument against gay marriage is in religion! Who are you to force ur religious beliefs on other people? A while ago probably a few hundred years ago u HAD to b christian! If u were not the whole town would probably accuse u of witchcraft or they just might all shun u! Norms are never a good thing!
Please provide me one good deduction that doesn't use religious premises or the assumption of a deity. Then come to the conclusion that homosexuality is immoral and i will believe it!
Homosexuality and transgender are 2 different issues that cannot b discussed in the same light! What business is it of yours wat people do with their own bodies?
MareGaea wrote:
Teaching schoolkids about the normality of homosexuality is a good thing, I think. It would prevent a lot of hurt and gay-bashing and discrimination in the future as these kids have learned to accept homosexuality as normal part of society, a flaw which older generations have to cope with as they have always been thought that it is a deprivation of some sort. And: just because 1 million ppl believe it's wrong, doesn't mean that it actually IS wrong! The opinion of 1 million ppl is all too often brought forward as evidence that it must be true. But it doesn't prove anything; the only thing it proves is that 1 million ppl think like that. Nothing else.
It's just a matter of respect. If you don't respect somebody else, how can you expect that that other person respects you? Unfortunately most ppl who talk about the "dictatorship" of minorities don't respect those minorities and at the same time expect those minorities to be respectful of them. As long as this crooked way of thinking exists, nothing will be solved and nothing will progress. We need to get rid of it.
I love ur opinion on preaching acceptance in schools to children at young ages! Its kind of ridiculous to preach antiracism and not gay acceptance! U cannnot discriminate against gays in the workplace if u do and they get an attorney they can b awarded millions in reparations! U can't even ask some1 wat their sexual orientation is in a job interview!
U better get used to it people gays are everywhere! My dad works with several prominent gays as well as my mom! By stressing about the ethics of it ur just causing urself grief over something that doesn't concern u! We do need acceptance education in schools!
My freshman year in college this FB jock on scholarship was hit on by a gay guy. The gay guy didn't say anything that terrible to him either just "hello gorgeous" or something like that. The jock got really angry but didn't tell him to not say those things and after he sat down at a lunch table and talked to some of his friends he came to the conclusion that he needed retribution. So he walked over the the gay kid and said "don't ever talk to me again" and the gay kid said "chill out im sorry honey" after that the jock grabbed him by the thoat and thew him on ground!
A bunch of ppl jumped on the jock and he walked away really angry! The gay kid went righ to the cops got him arrested. After that he was convicted of a hate crime and booted out of school with a criminal record. He ended up in jail for a while and the kid also got a few thousand in damages! Maybe if the jock had a tolerance class he wouldn't have ruined his life b/c a gay guy called him "gorgeous"! HAHAHAHAHA that homophobe got wat he deserved!