Hey, do you like gay people? Me too! But I didn't used to; I grew up in an isolated culture that taught me gayness was a sin. I even developed a disgust reaction to gays; their immorality was obvious and gross. Eventually I left and figured out being gay was fine. But my-
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A blunt counterexample to your reasoning would be the husband in a happy marriage (kids, family, real estate) whos sexual desires seek to maximize his offspring by screwing the secretary thereby destroying everything he worked for.
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If his wife leaves him and his male peers ostracize him so he can't help his sons secure status that doesn't optimize his fitness, now does it? That's not a novel evolutionary situation. Only in certain circumstances is "have the maximum number of offspring" optimal.
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The massive intake of food is an ancient strategy to survival yet leads to obesity nowadays. Also our moral intuitions wrt fairness are adapted to zero sum economies but fail us often to see the advantages of thriving neighbors
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Just because something evolved does not mean it’s optimal, and even if it were optimal in specific circumstances that doesn’t imply it’s optimal now. Fear evolved, it protecting us from real harm, in modern society it often cripples us with anxieties that have no rational basis.
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Plenty of other animals engage in homosexual bonding, as do other ancient cultures. The disgust is highly culturally mediated. You can argue that anti-homosexual culture is somehow more adaptive, but that's an argument about cultural evolution not innate disgust.
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