| Community Leader Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: adelaide, australia Gender:  Posts: 577 Country:  Level up: 78%, 45 Points needed |  |  fxashun: Quote: |
Just as your earlier "evidence" only looked at homosexuality after the fact and with no basis.
| i am not sure what sort of evidence you are really looking for. the evidence available to you is enough to convince most people who have seen it. it is comparable to the evidence that women are as intelligent as men, or that dinosaurs once walked the earth. it is presented in the same forums, by people with the same level of experience and training. you can choose to ignore it, but you cannot claim it is worthless. Quote: |
Your "evidence" here only looks at pedophilia.
| as that was the point i was trying to make. Quote: |
No one here says that homosexuality and pedophilia are just the same.
| actually, that has been said many times. Quote: |
The differences between the two are obvious.
| not so obvious that you have compared them directly countless times. Quote: |
But so is the difference between homosexuality and left handedness, race, and red hair. Yet we see those comparisons made as well.
| people make those comparisons to show how ludicrous they are. they are an example of what sort of flawed conclusions you can come to if you make narrow comparisons based on the superficial. and they are made to illustrate that social norms can be and have been interpreted as biological truths.
you, however, do the opposite. you have made the comparison between paedophilia and homosexuality because you believe them to be very similar. Quote: |
So don't get so indignant when the logical similarities between two biologically similar actual sexual urges are compared.
| i am not. i am letting you know that the actual sexual urges are biologically different. they look similar but only if you refuse to look in any detail. leopards and cheetas look similar too, but nobody would suggest they are the same, they are different in many ways. as are paedophiles and gays. Quote: |
The differences between the two as it relates to sexual orientation are slight at best.
| the differences are fundamental. the differences relate to which drives, urges, cognitive processes, emotions are activated or supressed during arousal. slight ? Quote: |
Especially when you remove the reproductive and physiologic aspects of sex. Something you have to do to even begin to consider an innate urge to copulate with a same gendered person is normal.
| not really, not if you have the time and inclination to look beyond genitals. but i think we might have come full circle. i feel i am repeating myself. and i think you are too. |