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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (72039)8/8/2003 10:50:20 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
The matter of Sparta is, I think, the closest you have come to raising a cogent objection to my argument. The problem with it is that there is no particular reason to believe that the majority of boys are true homosexuals, rather than bisexual. A profoundly gay person is almost incapable of arousal by the opposite sex, and, in fact, usually finds physical intimacy with the opposite sex repugnant. There is little doubt that a bisexual society would reproduce at adequate levels. The claim of extinction is predicated upon the prevalence of profound homosexuality.



To: epicure who wrote (72039)8/8/2003 11:05:07 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
By the way, the problem with adducing modern technology is that it amounts to saying that we would have a remedy for a condition that would otherwise render the species extinct. Thus, it wouldn't be in a category of technological enhancement, but of technological rectification, much like the creation of protheses, and would not reflect on the fundamental claim that it would be undesirable for homosexuality to be the prevailing orientation for the species.


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