The Homosexuality Discussion Thread
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Sure it does - it tells Irish politicians to "listen to their consciences" in an upcoming vote on abortion, although the Catholic Primate of All-Ireland, Cardinal Brady, failed to report clerical abuse.
Totally moral!
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That is because I understand what you are saying. It is just the way you want to force your opinion onto other people what makes people "attack" your posts.
If you tone it down a little people would agree with you, as we all understand (at least most of us here on GTP) you have to struggle in your life. No one likes to live like that.
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Dennisch
Seriously, mate? Look, the Pope can be a total a** sometimes with what he says (most of time) but with what he said has some logic to it. Think about it, you are designed (either through God, or through evolution, wichever you believe in) to survive. Whether it be throuh survival of the fittest or reproduction. Being a homosexual does not carry on the human race. Sure you adopt, but have you produced another human being? NO, you just took an orphan and raised him/her as your own.
In the late 1800's, there was a group of people, their name escapes me for the moment, but this group of people was hell-bent into not having sex, and staying with the same sex (male/female). They died off in the early 1930's.
So in a logical sense, the Pope is right about the threat to mankind, mankind wont die off because of this in the near future, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to deliver.
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Yeah we understand the biological reasoning for a man and woman relationship, but with humanity not exactly needing people having more babies, the biological reasoning is kind of pointless now.
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Yeah, but it makes no sense. Evolution not only means reproduction, firstly.
And secondly, At the rate the population on this planet is increasing the inhabitants of this planet will have tripled (yes, thats true), by 2090. So I doubt that your statement is in any way necessary
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Utter nonsense.
Humans have existed as a species for tens of thousands of years with homosexuality (as have a staggeringly large number of other species), so no logic exists that it now poses a threat to us as a species (or ever has).
Oh and evolution doesn't have a 'design', but that's for another thread.
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I honestly feel that if a person doesn't accept homosexuality, then they should probably be locked up somewhere until they think otherwise.
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I said something in the same street before as well, about Romney. (I actually was speaking without thinking lot and didnt really mean it). I HATE people that are homophobic, and I really think there should be done something about it.
But locking up won't help. Maybe more people should step up in favor of homosexual equality (and overall equality), so these narrowminded people don't get the wrong example by media and stuff?
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Based on committing exactly what crime?
That of holding a different opinion?
I find homophobia to be deeply disturbing, but unless someone displays that homophobia in a manner that breaks the lay then its no more than an opinion; and the day we start locking people up for holding an opinion counter to our own we are in deep trouble.
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Locking them up won't help at all. It'll just make things like having opinions a dangerous thing now. But things are being done against homophobia. Public demonstrations, legislations, and social media all helped push forward equality on that front. In America more so than ever before. 20 years ago a gay soldier wouldn't dare say he or she where not straight. Now we have more soldiers more comfortable with their orientation than ever before.
There will always be narrow minded people and the media will always be there to feed them their nonsense. But at least take comfort knowing that more and more people are waking up and supporting the cause.
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I did read. I'm taking the MCATs you know, so you could at least treat me like someone who has reading comprehension.👍
I was just adding to that comment of yours.
I was just adding to that comment of yours.
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That's ridiculous.
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My 2 cents:
There is nothing wrong with it. God (if you believe in such a thing) created us all so there is no mistake there...he created variety. If you think homosexuality has an impact on strait relationships including your own, then you are actually the one with the problem. Gays dont want to see you hooking up with your girl anymore than you wanna see them with their guy. A person's sexuality is a minor small part of who they are as a person, as long as they are good people then it shouldnt matter. REMOVED BY STAFF _ AUP Violation
There is nothing wrong with it. God (if you believe in such a thing) created us all so there is no mistake there...he created variety. If you think homosexuality has an impact on strait relationships including your own, then you are actually the one with the problem. Gays dont want to see you hooking up with your girl anymore than you wanna see them with their guy. A person's sexuality is a minor small part of who they are as a person, as long as they are good people then it shouldnt matter. REMOVED BY STAFF _ AUP Violation
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The argument about humans having to reproduce to be useful for their race... wow, that's just plain nonsense. In fact, we all should focus on reducing the global population more than ever, because 7 billion is way, WAY too much. We don't want any more than that. If this goes on, a huge amount of people will definitely be killed simply due to the environment not being able to withstand that amount in undeveloped countries.
Thus, homosexuality actually saves lives (although being gay obviously isn't required for not reproducing).
Thus, homosexuality actually saves lives (although being gay obviously isn't required for not reproducing).
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I have played GT5 online probably for hundreds of hours in the last two years and have never once heard the term "gay, fag, homo" or any other derivative...ever.
And just to drive a point home, about how ridiculous it is to give so much power to people over the use of a word, which is exactly what you are doing, I'll give you a couple of things to chew on.
By using the word "fat" you insulted probably 100 Million Amercians who are either overweight or clinically obese. In polite company, we don't use the word "fat" we say "overweight" or some other term less insulting than fat.
Many black people don't like the use of the word "black" to describe the either. They prefer to be referred to by their place of origin, same as the rest of the world. In the U.S. that could mean "African American". In Africa, you'd call them Africans. It's not polite to call people of Asian decent, "Yellowskins", Native Americans "Redskins", East Asians "Brownskins" so why is it polite to call people with dark skin black? In doing so, you just insulted what, 35,000,000 Americans and possibly 1 Billion more people with black skin in the world, maybe more.
Following the religious meaning, the word damn is a common form of religious profanity. Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of everlasting divine punishment and/or disgrace, especially the punishment for sin as threatened by God. In using the word "damn" in your response you could potentially have insulted 2,180,000,000 people of Christian Faith in the world.
So before you lash out at others for using a word that you personally have an issue with, take a look in the mirror, because your one post alone could be seen as offensive by half the population of the planet.
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I strongly disagree. I think most people agree that "African American" isn't even an accurate description most of the time, considering all the different places people come from. Also, Americans of European descent aren't called European Americans. That's because we're U.S. citizens, just like black people or any other ethnicity.
Black seems to be the most acceptable term among black people. I should note that you've refered to them as "black" in your first sentence. It's just more natural. More people would be offended by "African American" than by "black."
You're right that this doesn't really make sense, as people of Asian descent are usually just called "Asian." However, using the term "African" in a similar way has completely different connotations, and would probably be considered offensive. I'm not really sure how to make this more consistent, but that's how it is.
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Difference is, they are offended by the word, I'm not. I'm offended if somebody uses it to express malcontent over something, which makes it offensive. It's like saying, that you don't like something so you call it African-American. Same thing. (Because in your opinion that word isn't offensive, the meaning it gets will be.)
(And since a lot of people in this thread tried to make the word go back to it's original meaning, I consider that quite annoying as well.)
P.S.: Your whole post was kind of lacking trustworthiness, because playing for hundreds of hours and not hearing gay or faggot used in a derogative way... That's Impossible.
(New plan, let's make a Mission Impossible movie where Ethan Hunt needs to learn people on the internet how to have a decent conversation..*Sarcasm*)
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