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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Jun 2019

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      16/ ok, let us define some terms. I'm going to call the people you label "gay" "metaphysically gay". I'm now going to relabel the people you call "gays participating in anal sex" (i.e. 99% of the first group) as "gay". My thesis now is correct.https://twitter.com/hedbergrules/status/1135307375353749504 …

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      Your motorcycle analogy is flawed. By definition, motorcycle riders must participate in the risky behavior of riding motorcycles. Whereas gay people don't need to engage in risky sexual behavior to be defined as gay.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Jun 2019

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      17/ No, not at all. I just hate listening to people spout politically correct nonsense that pleases the power structure, like the greengrocer in Havel's essay. https://twitter.com/lomas_scot/status/1135338315765301248?s=19 …

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Jun 2019

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      18/ Interesting projection. Search my TL. I almost never talk about gays because I truly don't care. You, on the other hand, are using ad hominems because you can't fight my actual point (because the facts strongly support my position). https://twitter.com/lomas_scot/status/1135351724028203009?s=19 …

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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      19/ I've changed my mind on hundreds of topics, when presented with evidence. What is your evidence that my mind is shut tight? What is your evidence that will convince me that gays are as healthy as heteros? https://twitter.com/lomas_scot/status/1135402004166074368?s=19 …

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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      20/ Lesbian sex isn't unhealthy, but lesbians are (on average). Statistics show that they smoke more, drink more, are overweight more, and commit suicide more than hetero women. https://twitter.com/Meteoryan1/status/1135404541417967616?s=19 …

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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      21/ That's not shifting the goal posts at all. That's the thesis statement of this thread. Scroll all the way the very top of the thread to verify. https://twitter.com/Meteoryan1/status/1135404821614194688?s=19 …

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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      22/ No, I'm not arguing that homosexuality is CORRELATED with bad health. I'm arguing that it CAUSES it. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135577687240654848 …

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      23/ Please define for me what data or argument I could provide that would meet your standards for a causal connection. If I can find data / make the argument, I will. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135578333163319296 …

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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      24/ Obesity is a direct health risk in that the mechanism is purely biochemical (extra load of heart). Homosexuality is a health risk in exactly the same way that Urbach-Wiethe disease (lack of fear) is - it encourages / allows risky behavior. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135579709238996993 …

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

      25/ So now my question to you is: do you accept that diseases like Urbach-Wiethe disease are health risks, even though they do not cause damage via biochemistry, but cause risky behavior via biochemistry? If not, why not?

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      26/ Yes, it does! https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135581015492063234 …

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          27/ Also, re the second question: you are conflating two things. Merely because I assert homosexuality is dangerous does NOT imply that I assert that anyone should change their behaviors. These are two orthogonal concepts. Left is very bad at thinking risk = need to change.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          28/ "you have nothing" No, I have a statement that attribute X causally leads to behavior Y with a very very high probability, and behavior Y leads to risk damage Z. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135581873961226240 …

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          29/ You may choose to discount all attributes like this, but then you have to argue e.g. schizophrenia has fine outcomes, because it's merely CORRELATED with running into traffic, and does not biochemically CAUSE a shattered skull (the car does that!).

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          30/ There are four ways that two things A and B can be correlated. A causes B. B causes A. Unknown factor C causes both A and B. Sheer coincidence. Given that homosexuality is correlated with HIV deaths, do you posit #4 "sheer coincidence" ?

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          31/ Being a young male is, in fact, a cause of suicide. High testosterone increases incidents of violence, and suicide is a form of violence. That's not a correlation; it's causality. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135583789457915904 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          32/ I think your argument is: "unless (a) there is a biochemical pathway from X to Y WITHOUT behavior as an intermediate step, and (b) the rate of incidence is exactly 100%, it can never be causation but must always be mere correlation"

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          33/ Again, you're conflating two things. It doesn't matter if you can choose to be a young male or not; it's still a risk. Your insistence on moving topic back to "yes, but if they can't change ..." is very weird. You are conflating 2 distinct things. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135584891238735873 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          34/ There are extra variables in EVERYTHING. Not every gay man gets HIV. Not every wingsuit person crashes into a mountain. Not every heroin injector has a bad outcome. Not every cloistered nun avoids getting murdered. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135585240427065344 …

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          35/ It is tho. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135585477635977216 …

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          36/ You're 2/3 correct, but you're saying it in a confused way. Have you ever done coding of data, or multivariate regressions? If p(x) is associated w gender & males are more likely to x, then we might code female as 0 and male as 1, and call 1 "risk" https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135587716031115267 …

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          37/ So if we're trying to look at dying by self inflicted gunshot, we'd say p(x) = 0.002 x g + 0.003 x h + ... where 0.002 is the risk coefficient associated with being male, and g is 0 for female and 1 for male and 0.003 is the risk coefficient for some other trait and h ...

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          38/ So in this example, no, we would NOT say that being female is a risk factor. We would say that being male is a risk factor. So it's not, contrary to your framing, the case that EVERYTHING is a risk factor.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

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          39/ 1) I wasn't being snide. 2) the debate is not, and has never been (scroll up!) over whether gays can choose to be gay or not. The debate has only EVER been over whether homosexuality is a risk factor. https://twitter.com/TBDenham/status/1135603752637935618 …

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          40/ Also, you casually say that "obesity is controllable". question for you: is the success rate of long term weight loss better or worse than that of "conversion therapy"?

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Jun 2019

          41/ Also, re "risk factors" and "but if someone is X and they can't change X..." We all understand that being Jewish is a risk factor for Tay Sachs disease, right? That being black is a risk factor for sickle cell anemia? That being Native American is a risk factor for alcoho-

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