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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 24-Aug-2010 At 10:49:49 PM Hendo

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I’m not 100% convinced about the ‘it’s none of your business’ argument. People care about what other people are doing in their community and that isn’t necessarily wrong. As for the slippery slope I wonder which sexual deviations are outside of the arguments about it’s not hurting you, it’s none of your business, these people are often otherwise normal etc. It seems pretty often that when people are found to have unusual deviations (eg paedophilia) those that know them are surprised as they otherwise seem normal and well-adjusted. I expect there are people around here more creative with these things than myself who could come up with a better list than incest, bestiality, consensual underage relationships, polygamy, concubines.

The environment you are in can shape you to become almost anything. People here with very liberal views could easily be part of the Taliban had they been born in a few different desert countries. I don’t put homosexuality outside this for a lot of people. Though I thankfully don’t have first hand experience the reputations preceding prisons and the navy, they seem like extreme examples of people engaging in homosexual behaviour who most likely would otherwise not in ‘normal’ society. Of course this doesn’t make it wrong, however if you think heterosexuality is preferable to homosexuality (not necessarily thinking homosexuality is bad) for some reason, then you might also want to reduce its prevalence through social pressures, laws etc to reduce the environmental factors which might push a person toward homosexuality. There are potentially many reasons; religious beliefs, fertility rates and babies for the next generation, you don’t want them perving/hitting on you, preferring your children to be heterosexual to continue your blood line, or in the case of a warship captain, avoiding relationship issues amongst your seamen, whatever.

I wonder how much of all this is people wanting it only because some else has one and they can’t have it. Maybe relationships should be banned. Soon all problems would end.