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Is Homosexuality A Choice?

Is Homosexuality A Choice?

  • Yes

    Votes: 33 15.9%

  • No

    Votes: 136 65.7%

  • Maybe/Don't Know

    Votes: 38 18.4%
  • Total voters
    207
opendebate said:
Excuse me for barging in at the last moment but.....what is the objective here? If we are able to determine that it is a "defect" what would the impact of that be?
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Eugenics, and then all hell starts to break loose because no one will be able to agree on what stays and what goes. It will be a great show though, just look at the fight over Down Syndrome.
 
TiredOfLife said:
No one knows, which makes it a safe bet. Most of biology works that way. Nature rolls multidimensional dice.
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Medical science has defeated a lot of natural maladies. Who's to say in 100 years there wouldn't be a "cure" so to speak? I don't really think anyone can say.
 
ChrisL said:
Medical science has defeated a lot of natural maladies. Who's to say in 100 years there wouldn't be a "cure" so to speak? I don't really think anyone can say.
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Nature is never defeated. We stall her off from time to time but in the end she will always win. As for a 'cure" for homosexuality, by the time we have that in hand that will be the least of your concerns because the fight will be between a world of little Hitlers and a world of little Gandhis. God help us then.
 
TiredOfLife said:
Nature is never defeated. We stall her off from time to time but in the end she will always win. As for a 'cure" for homosexuality, by the time we have that in hand that will be the least of your concerns because the fight will be between a world of little Hitlers and a world of little Gandhis. God help us then.
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I'll probably and hopefully be dead by then so what do I care? :2razz:
 
ChrisL said:
I'm not sure they've figured out exactly what causes one to be attracted to his/her own sex. I still have to wonder about some kind of hormonal disruption or something.
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we are in agreement
 
TiredOfLife said:
No, it doesn't. Einstein wasn't defective, he was abnormal, abnormally smart, something you will never have to concern yourself with apparently.
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A bull that can't fetilize the cows because it is attracted to other bulls is defective, most people realize this
 
ChrisL said:
Medical science has defeated a lot of natural maladies. Who's to say in 100 years there wouldn't be a "cure" so to speak? I don't really think anyone can say.
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Why would it need to be cured though?
 
Rocketman said:
A bull that can't fetilize the cows because it is attracted to other bulls is defective, most people realize this
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It's only "defective" if you bought it to make little cows. If all you plan to do is try to ride it for eight seconds, it's winner winner chicken dinner. By your definition, anyone who doesn't have children is "defective" which isn't true. And many animals mount others regardless of their sex. It's not "can't" but it might be "won't". Most bulls don't mount real cows anyway. Their juices are collected by one of these: Semen Collection

Ah the romance.
 
TiredOfLife said:
It's only "defective" if you bought it to make little cows. If all you plan to do is try to ride it for eight seconds, it's winner winner chicken dinner. By your definition, anyone who doesn't have children is "defective" which isn't true. And many animals mount others regardless of their sex. It's not "can't" but it might be "won't". Most bulls don't mount real cows anyway. Their juices are collected by one of these: Semen Collection

Ah the romance.
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I wouldn't want to be the person with that job.
 
TiredOfLife said:
Eugenics, and then all hell starts to break loose because no one will be able to agree on what stays and what goes. It will be a great show though, just look at the fight over Down Syndrome.
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Yikes.
 
TiredOfLife said:
It's only "defective" if you bought it to make little cows. If all you plan to do is try to ride it for eight seconds, it's winner winner chicken dinner. By your definition, anyone who doesn't have children is "defective" which isn't true. And many animals mount others regardless of their sex. It's not "can't" but it might be "won't". Most bulls don't mount real cows anyway. Their juices are collected by one of these: Semen Collection

Ah the romance.
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not on private farms, it is a defect in bumans and animals, it has been proven over and over and has nothing to do with pc or opinion
 
Rocketman said:
Yeah, if we could cure any defect, why would we want to?:roll:
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But some so called defects are only termed a defect because they differ from the norm. I can understand trying to cure "defects" if they are detrimental to the individual or others, like being a child molester for instance. But how does someone elses sexuality, when practiced consensually, hurt anyone else or them for that matter?
 
ChrisL said:
Why not? Does anyone really want to be gay?
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But I don't think it matters. It's like any other brand of sexuality. why do we care? You can f a goat for all I care and it is pretty much your business and has no harmful effect on anyone. (except maybe the goat, but who knows) The destructive part comes from the disapproval of others not the attraction to your own gender.
 
TiredOfLife said:
Cows milk is for baby cows. How do you think we get it?
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What does that have to do with "collecting" sperm from a bull? Now you're talking about milking cows?
 
opendebate said:
But I don't think it matters. It's like any other brand of sexuality. why do we care? You can f a goat for all I care and it is pretty much your business and has no harmful effect on anyone. (except maybe the goat, but who knows) The destructive part comes from the disapproval of others not the attraction to your own gender.
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So? Why would you WANT to be gay? If there was something that would help you, why would you refuse it? Perhaps in the future, they would be able to tell if an unborn child would be gay or not, and be able to do something about before it affect his/her life.
 
Rocketman said:
not on private farms, it is a defect in bumans and animals, it has been proven over and over and has nothing to do with pc or opinion
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The word "defect" is by definition an opinion. It means this we like and this we don't. and applies to what we create, not what nature creates. She can mess around as much as she likes, and she does. It's evolution, which I know, you don't believe in either.
 
ChrisL said:
So? Why would you WANT to be gay? If there was something that would help you, why would you refuse it? Perhaps in the future, they would be able to tell if an unborn child would be gay or not, and be able to do something about before it affect his/her life.
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But you are making the assumption that it is vexing to those people, more or less imposing your judgement on their choices. Again, why would we not rather chose to evolve and be more excepting and tolerant of the choices people make in their private lives? It seems like a much more valuable evolution than to force a limited perception of what is and is not acceptable on people who differ from us.
 
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