(February 27, 2013 at 3:13 pm)Vera Wrote:(February 27, 2013 at 3:08 pm)apophenia Wrote: Indeed, but in the context of the thread, the possibility of making babies is the critical fact separating the affected class from the non-affected class. (Or so it would seem to me.)
Oh, I get it (we had a very similar argument - only, it was proposed in all seriousness - over at TTA today; something along the lines that homosexuality is bad for society because sex is only right if it could possibly lead to procreation or some such shit).
Frankly, if people want to live just so that they can procreate and preserve their precious genes - be my guest. Just so long as they don't shove their ideas about what (my) life is all about down my throat. Or down anyone else's throat for that matter
@orogenicman: You don't sayI was just repeating some of the crap bigots like to use as argument. Trying to be sarcastic, you know (and failing).
That's okay. Sometimes sarcasm is hard to discern in simple text format.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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