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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Replying to @Aella_Girl
You can't even coherently state the position you've allegedly considered and rejected. "Gayness" isn't a thing any more than wanting to strangle hookers is a thing - it's a disordered desire that leads to immoral, disgusting, harmful *acts* Disgust is the appropriate reaction
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Yeah see this is the thing. I don't personally care if people wanna bone each other with the same genitals. Whether or not it's disgusting is irrelevant to letting grown ass adults do what they want with each other.
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No, disgust is an evolved response for a very good reason. Arthur Ashe disagrees that it's irrelevant, btw (or would if he was alive).pic.twitter.com/ckaREzG9Bg
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Evolutionary inborn reasons always aim at maximizing reproduction, a goal that seems rather outdated and incompatible with individual happiness. Evolution never cared about happiness and suffering, hence its an unsuitable moral compass
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No. Evolutionary reasons aim at maximizing surviving ancestors (who have the same goal) and they are a very good guide to happiness because any pathways to happiness that don't involve maximizing surviving ancestors are strongly selected against.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Aella_Girl
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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