Thursday, October 14, 2010

Preventing Homosexuality?



I disagree with ZOMGitsCriss on many of the points made. She has that zombie-PC mentality that seems to have blinded her to the research she was presenting. First of all, it cannot be denied that hormones play a HUGE factor in behavior and sexual orientation. Being heterosexual should be considered the norm in human psychological/physiological studies, and anything that falls outside of that should be considered abnormal. While sensitivity should be used for those non-heterosexual people (for obvious reasons), the root-causes for why such behavior exists should be researched.

For example, many people in the United States have problems with depression, perhaps they are genetically predisposed to this, but just because they are predisposed to having this psychological issue, does not mean we should just accept things like suicide or other self destructive behaviors as being "normal". Depression is caused by both behavioral and hormonal factors (each influencing the other); the same is the case for homosexuality. While "normal" is, I will admit, relative—we need to strive for the highest level of human well-being (which falls into the objective realm).

Gay people are missing out on a great part of life, there is nothing greater than the love between a man and a woman. Yes, they can experience love, but I do not feel that their 'biological misfiring' is on the same level of that of the norm (for purely biological reasons)—I would love to see studies done on this. There is no greater experience in life than having your own child; while raising anothers' child as your own can come close, I still believe it falls short (again, studies should be done on this). Just because a certain number of people behave a certain way and are capable of forming lobbies, does not mean that it should be considered taboo to view it as being abnormal. Obviously I am not advocating bigotry towards homosexuals, that would be totally unproductive; however, the causes of homosexual behavior should be open for discussion, not stifled because of PC nonsense.

It may even be possible in the future that homosexuals will be able to get certain medications and behavioral therapy to correct their sexuality ('correct' as in  the norm of reproductive functioning). While this should not be mandatory (obviously), research in this field should be done so all people are able to live the life as a heterosexual (allowing them to have a genetically tied family) if they choose to.

The main reason I made this post is because of the annoying PC nature of this girls video. Just because an opinion is viewed being more 'open-minded' does not mean it should be blindly accepted.

1 comment:

  1. I don't agree with this commentary at all.

    "Yes, they can experience love, but I do not feel that their 'biological misfiring' is on the same level of that of the norm (for purely biological reasons)"

    I haven't heard you produce any evidence whatsoever for this claim.

    Even from an evolutionary perspective homosexuality is not considered abnormal. Evolution does not consider things abnormal. All that can be said is that if homosexuality was the prevalent form of sexual pairing, survival and replication would be thwarted. IS that bad? In our opinion its bad, but from natures perspective, it is completely indifferent. Nature does not have opinions about these sorts of things, because nature is not a thinking person. You cannot use evolution to derive an ought from an is.

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