(April 13, 2015 at 2:40 am)Heywood Wrote: Homosexuality isn't equivalent to heterosexuality.....not the way races are equivalent. This is trivially easy to show by way of thought experiment. Suppose one day every human being on the planet woke up to discover that some unknown force made them all homosexuals. Such an event would be utterly devastating to humanity.
Now suppose one day every human being on the planet woke up to discover that some unknown force made them all heterosexual. Such an event would probably have no negative effect at all on humanity. If it did have some negative effect, it would be inconsequential. The same is true if everyone woke up to find they had been transformed into African Americans or Hispanics or Asians. Such transformations would have little impact on humanity.
Because it's not like overpopulation is a problem or anything, right? If we had even more of our population breeding more children, that wouldn't make a bad situation worse or anything, right?
By your kind of analysis, a sexual orientation's value being established by its impact on our breeding of children, if we made half of our population gay, it would potentially solve or at least relieve or problem of overpopulation. Therefore, by your highly questionable analysis of a orientation's "value", homosexuality would be "superior".
Quote:If homosexuality and heterosexuality are not equivalent, then one is superior than the other.
Non Sequitur. Equality does not require interchangeability. Two things can be different and yet one not be pronounced superior. Men and women are not exactly equivalent and yet we shouldn't think of one as superior to the other.
Quote:Theists have decided that heterosexuality is superior and thus they do not like the ideal of homosexuality being artificially elevated to the same stature.
We could go with your fallacious and uninformed views to explain homophobia or we could go with peer reviewed studies. Studies have shown that homophobic males are likely to be repressed gays/bisexuals themselves.
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