Why dislike homosexuals?

[Cannot think of a name]

All people are born asexual. You cannot be born straight or gay. or bisexual, or pansexual or whateversexual

So... does this mean... being straight is a choice...?

If it is it might have been the only time it was appropriate to let a decision be made by my penis.

[The Keystone Federation]

All people are born asexual. You cannot be born straight or gay. or bisexual, or pansexual or whateversexual

So... does this mean... being straight is a choice...?

It's made by hormones that are produced in your brain, hormones are produced because of your genes, if you are subject to epigenetics, which I don't feel like getting into, your hormones can be changed, meaning your brain's perception of your sexual orientation can change.

[Cannot think of a name]

So... does this mean... being straight is a choice...?

Yes. I had to choose to be straight.

If you had to make a conscious decision to be into the opposite gender, I've got some bad news for you...

[New Libertarian States]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w

That's why.

Didn't expect that.
On topic, I see no reason to dislike it.

[The Sector Union]

The reason people dislike homosexuality because they don't want their great great grand children to experience this in 200 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8ednS0skQ

[Ainin]

As I've stated in the boyscouts thread, everybody is entitled to their own opinions. Even if you believe their opinion is wrong, openly criticizing or undermining their opinion makes you no better than what you believe about them.

You do realize NSG is a debate forum, right?

[The Keystone Federation]

My theory is that all people are bisexual. And that many people just lie about it, because they feel ashamed.

OHMAGERD AGHHGHHG This makes me want to rip my hair out. When you are coming up with a question you can not just skip the whole investigation/experimentation phase, what you have is most certainly not a theory, you have a hypothetheory.

[Valkmar]

I dislike them because the only two homosexuals I have ever known in my life had flirted with me, and asked for sex SEVERAL times. And I said no. It is also against My morals.

Don't hold yourself too highly.

I don't hold myself very highly, I in fact have self-esteem issues. If I feel uncomfortable with homos asking to have sex with me, and hold it against them; then owell. And my morals are my morals.

[The Keystone Federation]

As I've stated in the boyscouts thread, everybody is entitled to their own opinions. Even if you believe their opinion is wrong, openly criticizing or undermining their opinion makes you no better than what you believe about them.

You do realize NSG is a debate forum, right?

There are plenty of ways to debate without insulting other people's beliefs directly. Maybe like, I don't know, actually looking up reasons to why their opinions could be skewed? Instead of simply stating that their beliefs are just "wrong" as I see way to often on NSG.

[Ainin]

My theory is that all people are bisexual. And that many people just lie about it, because they feel ashamed.

OHMAGERD AGHHGHHG This makes me want to rip my hair out. When you are coming up with a question you can not just skip the whole investigation/experimentation phase, what you have is most certainly not a theory, you have a hypothetheory.

Didn't you just say a minute ago that it was wrong to undermine other people's opinions?

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

Don't hold yourself too highly.

I don't hold myself very highly, I in fact have self-esteem issues. If I feel uncomfortable with homos asking to have sex with me, and hold it against them; then owell. And my morals are my morals.

I highly doubt that any individual on Nationstates has been asked for sex, whether it be from that of a man or woman.

But everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I suppose.

[The Keystone Federation]

OHMAGERD AGHHGHHG This makes me want to rip my hair out. When you are coming up with a question you can not just skip the whole investigation/experimentation phase, what you have is most certainly not a theory, you have a hypothetheory.

Didn't you just say a minute ago that it was wrong to undermine other people's opinions?

That isn't an opinion, he said it was a theory, you see, a theory is something that has been tested and proved in most cases to be true, an opinion is just some individual's opinion..sorry, the scientist in me tends to rage over things like this.

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As I've stated in the boyscouts thread, everybody is entitled to their own opinions. Even if you believe their opinion is wrong, openly criticizing or undermining their opinion makes you no better than what you believe about them.

Also, I disagree with you completely. People are entitled to free speech, as in, they can say anything they want, however hateful or ignorant it is, and I will insist without compromise that they should never be arrested, fined, or censored for what they say.

That does not mean their opinions are worthy of respect. Homophobia destroys lives. There is no benign way to have a problem with non-heterosexual and non-cisgender people, just as there is no benign way to be a racist, a misogynist, a classist, and ableist or any type of bigot. I don't care how polite a bigot is, how erudite a bigot is; they are a threat to my freedom, they are a threat to people I care about. They must be convinced to abandon their bigotry, failing that, they should be marginalized and ostracized by society.

[Cannot think of a name]

Didn't you just say a minute ago that it was wrong to undermine other people's opinions?

That isn't an opinion, he said it was a theory, you see, a theory is something that has been tested and proved in most cases to be true, an opinion is just some individual's opinion..sorry, the scientist in me tends to rage over things like this.

I've never seen the colloquial/scientific 'theory' conflation go the other way before.

[Galloism]

Because of body thetans.

I am against scientology actually. Nice try.

You just have some things in common, that's all.

[Desperate Measures]

The reason people dislike homosexuality because they don't want their great great grand children to experience this in 200 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8ednS0skQ

Ruby Rhod is straight.

[The Keystone Federation]

As I've stated in the boyscouts thread, everybody is entitled to their own opinions. Even if you believe their opinion is wrong, openly criticizing or undermining their opinion makes you no better than what you believe about them.

Also, I disagree with you completely. People are entitled to free speech, as in, they can say anything they want, however hateful or ignorant it is, and I will insist without compromise that they should never be arrested, fined, or censored for what they say.

That does not mean their opinions are worthy of respect. Homophobia destroys lives. There is no benign way to have a problem with non-heterosexual and non-cisgender people, just as there is no benign way to be a racist, a misogynist, a classist, and ableist or any type of bigot. I don't care how polite a bigot is, how erudite a bigot is; they are a threat to my freedom, they are a threat to people I care about. They must be convinced to abandon their bigotry, failing that, they should be marginalized and ostracized by society.

Look, what I'm trying to say is there is a difference between saying they're wrong and that they're beliefs are false, and explaining why they are false, what makes their opinions false- by simply stating they're false because it's not "moral" simply states that you are too opinionated yourself to actually think with their mindset. I believe if you're going to debate that you have to have an equal understanding as to why either side believes the things they do.

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w

That's why.

Honestly, I find this man's arguments against homosexuality more persuasive than that of most other individuals' arguments.

[The Sector Union]

The reason people dislike homosexuality because they don't want their great great grand children to experience this in 200 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8ednS0skQ

Ruby Rhod is straight.

Still mentally homosexual.

[Desperate Measures]

Ruby Rhod is straight.

Still mentally homosexual.

[Diopolis]

I hate the sin, not the sinner.

Homosexuality is not an action, it is a part of personal identity. If you "hate the sin", you automatically hate the "sinner".

The sin in this context is the action of homosexual relations, not the identification as homosexual.

[Threlizdun]

So... does this mean... being straight is a choice...?

Yes. I had to choose to be straight.

When did you make the mental choice to be straight? Can you prove your theory to us by turning gay really fast and then turn back? Why don't I remember when I chose to be pansexual? Why has this global conspiracy formed by millions of people insisting they never made this choice? Why are people just as likely to choose to be gay in countries that carry the death penalty as they are in countries where same-sex marriage is legal and discrimation based on sexual orientation is outlawed?

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Also, I disagree with you completely. People are entitled to free speech, as in, they can say anything they want, however hateful or ignorant it is, and I will insist without compromise that they should never be arrested, fined, or censored for what they say.

That does not mean their opinions are worthy of respect. Homophobia destroys lives. There is no benign way to have a problem with non-heterosexual and non-cisgender people, just as there is no benign way to be a racist, a misogynist, a classist, and ableist or any type of bigot. I don't care how polite a bigot is, how erudite a bigot is; they are a threat to my freedom, they are a threat to people I care about. They must be convinced to abandon their bigotry, failing that, they should be marginalized and ostracized by society.

Look, what I'm trying to say is there is a difference between saying they're wrong and that they're beliefs are false, and explaining why they are false, what makes their opinions false- by simply stating they're false because it's not "moral" simply states that you are too opinionated yourself to actually think with their mindset. I believe if you're going to debate that you have to have an equal understanding as to why either side believes the things they do.

I seek to understand bigotry like a doctor seeks to understand a sickness; for the purpose of destroying it.

[The Keystone Federation]

Look, what I'm trying to say is there is a difference between saying they're wrong and that they're beliefs are false, and explaining why they are false, what makes their opinions false- by simply stating they're false because it's not "moral" simply states that you are too opinionated yourself to actually think with their mindset. I believe if you're going to debate that you have to have an equal understanding as to why either side believes the things they do.

I seek to understand bigotry like a doctor seeks to understand a sickness; for the purpose of destroying it.

I don't understand bigotry either my friend, because people who see others as bigots are bigots themselves.

[Galloism]

I seek to understand bigotry like a doctor seeks to understand a sickness; for the purpose of destroying it.

I don't understand bigotry either my friend, because people who see others as bigots are bigots themselves.

Calling someone what they are = bigotry.

This has been NSG definitions, bigotry edition!