Homosexuality.

[devonin]

Originally Posted by L0NEvvolf

i hate being gay :'( i was raped as a kid and i think it influenced me as a kid

Locked until I convince the admin to give me the power to grant forum bans for this kind of idiotic nonsense.

Edit: Got a nice message on my profile wall in response to this:

Originally Posted by LONEvvolf

y do u wanna ban me i was being serious i was raped as a kid and i think that influenced me to becoming how i am now im serious i wasnt playing around you wanna ban me for speaking on a issue i have had alot of trobble with and was speaking the truth fine i love this game so i dont know why you would want to ban me for being 100% honest

1/ Your post added nothing to the discussion at all. The latest trend in the thread has been an analysis of the degree to which homosexuality seems to be genetic versus environmental. Your post didn't address this at all except in the most superficial way.

2/ You're falling into the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. You're connecting a previous event in your life to your current state and blaming the one directly on the other, without showing any actual causal connection between the two.

3/ If you "became gay" because of an environmental stimulus, it seems unreasonable to me that you couldn't decide to do something about it, especially if you "hate" being gay. The only way it would be beyond your control would be if you were born that way, in which case, the rape didn't have anything to do with it.

4/ Whether you were or were not actually raped "I got raped and I think it turned me gay" is an incredibly loaded and problematic statement in general. It is indistinguishable from trolling and a small degree of flaming whether it is true or not, and there are -many- better ways you could have phrased it in general, especially on the internet, and ESPECIALLY in a critical thinking forum on the internet.

5/ "i hate being gay :'( i was raped as a kid and i think it influenced me as a kid" The horrific spelling and punctuation are almost enough on their own. Proper spelling, grammar and punctuation are mandatory for the forum in general, and especially so in CT

I'm unlocking the thread if just to give you a chance to respond to this in a meaningful and contributory way, without cluttering up my profile wall, and because even with all the above, if you were at least trying to be serious and contributory, I ought not to punish the rest of the discussion for it.