zekko said:
This thread shows how prevalent PC thinking has become. Homosexuality has been considered abnormal throughout most of history. Only in about the last 10 years or less has it been decided that you are a "piece of human garbage" if you think it may be a perversion.
This is buried but spot on. People using their "21st century emotions" to give knee-jerk reaction to OP's question.
PC and pleasantries aside (I am no gay hater, in fact, I probably fall into the most liberal segment in this forum) , scientifically, he poses an interesting question. How is homosexuality different from bestiality? Both are paraphilias, both serve no reproductive purpose, and both are predominantly human, although there is some evidence that homosexuality is seen in the animal kingdom, and its bigger prevalence could be due to different mechanisms at work.
Given that pedophilia is one of the most notorious "diseases" in psychiatry where there is no evidence of a cure, it draws parallels to the analog in Homosexuality: Didn't we try to "cure" homosexuals, not long, 50 years ago?
Science traditionally doesn't involve itself in solving ethical dilemmas: How to treat or deal with necrophiliacs/pedophiliacs if they are born that way? Clearly, they cannot exist in our current society, nor that they have an "innate" right, even if we prove this is only due to genetics.
Take sociopaths-they might argue they had no choice in becoming who they are, we still would think they have absolutely no right in conducting their businesses as they please.
Same goes for pedophilia and other socially unacceptable cornucopia of paraphilias. However, before our "younguns" celebrate pederasty with fireworks, they must read some history and learn that the acceptance of homosexuality in our current thinking is a culmination of its strong prevalence in society and it is an entirely human construct to accept and welcome it as it is, by and large in the last 20-30 years or so, as Zekko points out.
And no -- pointing this fact out doesn't make anyone a "gay hater" or "pedophilia justifier" either.
I don't think "brainstorming" these issues make OP a "horrible" person.
Read some freaking history for a change :crackup: