Homosexual Marriage

[Kamunt]

Oh crap, what happened to my post...?! Damn, I thought I posted it already, but apparently not...

Originally Posted by T0rajir0u

I fail to understand how the information I posted was irrelevant. The primary deterrent to my posting in this particular subforum is that what is supposed to be a place devoted to Critical Thinking is too often devoid of exactly that. I particularly have a bone with people who post their lazy and/or cornpone opinions without actually doing any thinking (I am not accusing you of this).

Oh God, I'm so sorry!! The whole reason why I said what I did in your quote was because I thought you were saying it in reply to something I said...Wow, I completely missed the mark there. I'm so sorry, there's no excuse for me saying what I did. I hope you won't hold it against me...

I posted that link to remind some of the posters in here to at least attempt to conform to a somewhat higher intellectual standard, since I don't have to read this discussion to know that that's not what's going on here. I mean, this is the FlashFlashRevolution website. Why this subforum even exists (in a non-invite-only format) is beyond me.

While I'd be the first to admit that this topic hasn't exactly been a cavalcade of Doctorate-level thinking, at least looking at the last few pages, however, there's been a reasonably minimal amount of stupidity, I'd say. Most of the first-postards don't seem to be clogging up the topic anymore, so I'd say that, if anything, is an improvement. As for why this forum exists, my best guess we be that awhile back the intellectual proportion of the FFR population wanted a place where they could be intellectual without their topics being invaded by blithering fools. That's only a guess, though, of course, since I was not a part of this website at the time of this forum's conception.

I do appreciate your bolding of the relevant parts of the article. They were precisely my point.

N-No problem, T0ra...

Originally Posted by Kilroy_x

GLBT would have worked, but it also would have been too broad for the context of the discussion in some senses. The variance in the acronym opens up the possibility of different causes for each among other things, you see.

The only problem with the "T" is that that refers to transexuals, and you can't become a transexual without the direct intervention of science--why one would want to become this is a very interesting question. Transexuality is otherwise something that HAS to happen at birth, where you get an abnormal combination of X and Y chromosomes, I believe. Possible combinations are, I believe, XXY, XYY, YY (maybe?), and even rarer, XXYY. You can't modify your own chromosomes, so you're either trans at birth or you're not--there's not much debate there, hopefully.

When working in the dark it's not unreasonable to strike out equally in all available directions. If you assume a position, why shouldn't I assume the contradictory position? That's how debate is done about issues with little empirical evidence to interpret.



That shouldn't stop me from advocating a position as long as the position isn't one of violence or coercion.

Fair enough. I suppose that's reasonable. Works for me, at least.

I don't think DNA is necessarily part of it, because the last time I checked not everything which is biological is genetic.

True, that was my mistake. I hope my message was still gotten across, at least.