RE: Being gay is a fetish.
April 23, 2015 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 4:24 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(April 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Kitan Wrote: Because they are retards. Clearly.
No, because they hold views which have fallen out of favor today. It takes little courage to mount the bandwagon even when the bandwagon is right.
(April 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote: But we are not talking about people we personally know. We are talking about the collective climate that holds human rights back.
Or in some cases about people we do know. Somebody knows them at any rate. What constitutes human rights anyway? Human rights concepts are an innovation that didn't exist from time primeval, and they've been an evolving area of ethics since they were introduced and the nations signed up for the UN declaration in 1948. Who are we to say that every human society must subscribe to current Western thinking? The Australian Aborigines, a group whose customs our diversity and respect of culture doctrines command we keep our hands off, did not entertain any notion of gay rights. They punished homosexual behavior within a social climate where conformity to group norms far outweighed any consideration for individual wants. Every boy had to get circumcised and subincised in painful manhood rituals whether he wanted to or not.
I don't think ancient customs should be enshrined in our laws. The Aborigine groups could be charged with xenophobia as well, given their deep suspicion of all outside people. Nonetheless I don't charge them with stupidity.
