RE: Responding to "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong"
February 8, 2016 at 8:24 pm
These days I tend to disagree with a lot what you could describe as left wing liberal ideas.
But I just can't see a single solitary reason why homosexuality would be considered wrong, from any angle whatsoever.
Now as for incest, it is different. Ideally parents are supposed to give motiveless constant care to the people they give birth to, I think this would be disrupted by sexual behaviour. So that's one angle. I don't have brothers or sisters so it's very difficult for me to talk about brothers and sisters, my philosophy on this is on a similar level though. Your close family, I think ideally, is good for motiveless altruistic support.
I think the values that an ideal family has of motiveless altruistic support isn't carried on in sexual relationships, people tend to pick sexual partners for very selfish reasons. I can't imagine anyone saying "Well my sexual partner isn't funny, has no money, they're quite stupid and I find them repulsive to look at but I love them anyway."
With homosexuals there's nothing I could say about the way they do things that I couldn't say about straight people. I've heard people say homosexuality is different because HIV is spread more through homosexual sex. My argument to that would be that it's not exclusive to homosexuals, and if you're going to make that argument then you should be arguing that straight sex is wrong also and people should only be allowed to breed via insemination and the only kind of sexual activity allowed should be lesbian sex.
The fact that homosexual sex doesn't lead to children is not something I see as wrong either, that's just not having children.
As for if homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children or have children via artificial insemination I think that's a separate debate and not a topic that I have a very informed opinion on.
As I said I see myself as a very anti liberal person but when it comes to homosexuality I just don't see the issue, the thought of male on male sex disgusts me but it doesn't make it wrong.
But I just can't see a single solitary reason why homosexuality would be considered wrong, from any angle whatsoever.
Now as for incest, it is different. Ideally parents are supposed to give motiveless constant care to the people they give birth to, I think this would be disrupted by sexual behaviour. So that's one angle. I don't have brothers or sisters so it's very difficult for me to talk about brothers and sisters, my philosophy on this is on a similar level though. Your close family, I think ideally, is good for motiveless altruistic support.
I think the values that an ideal family has of motiveless altruistic support isn't carried on in sexual relationships, people tend to pick sexual partners for very selfish reasons. I can't imagine anyone saying "Well my sexual partner isn't funny, has no money, they're quite stupid and I find them repulsive to look at but I love them anyway."
With homosexuals there's nothing I could say about the way they do things that I couldn't say about straight people. I've heard people say homosexuality is different because HIV is spread more through homosexual sex. My argument to that would be that it's not exclusive to homosexuals, and if you're going to make that argument then you should be arguing that straight sex is wrong also and people should only be allowed to breed via insemination and the only kind of sexual activity allowed should be lesbian sex.
The fact that homosexual sex doesn't lead to children is not something I see as wrong either, that's just not having children.
As for if homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children or have children via artificial insemination I think that's a separate debate and not a topic that I have a very informed opinion on.
As I said I see myself as a very anti liberal person but when it comes to homosexuality I just don't see the issue, the thought of male on male sex disgusts me but it doesn't make it wrong.
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