(January 3, 2009 at 9:18 am)leo-rcc Wrote: It appears Richard Dawkins agrees with the stance Midas Dekkers makes:Well if that's all he's saying I guess I completely misunderstood the video. Perhaps I wouldn't have done if it wasn't just subtitles. I dunno. But anyway I agree with Dawkins (I think. I haven't thought about this subject too much. But it seems the correct view on the matter at least to me. I don't know much about the subject) and if that's all Dekkers was saying in the video then I must have just misunderstood him (and I can only speak english btw. So that includes not being able to speak Dutch of course).
Richard Dawkins Wrote:As for your particular desire not to stigmatise homosexuality as unnatural, why bother? In one sense it is unnatural (it doesn't result in procreation which is obviously the ultimate Darwinian function of sexual behaviour). On the other hand it is natural (lots of people do it for preference and enjoy it). isn't that enough? Why drag in bonobos, as if the fact that it is common among them made it any more natural than the fact that it is common in humans? Let people do what they feel like doing (so long as it doesn't hurt others). You don't need to justify it by looking to other species.
Also see "the Bonobo's Tale" in Richard Dawkins' book, The Ancestor's Tale
If that's the case apologies for my ignorant accidental misunderstanding. If not, not.
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