I admitt, desease and sickness are a really bad choice of words (especialyl due to many negative conotations associated with these words)..and they don't fit either.(Desease is something you contract for instance..)
Condition is the most suitable word.
Now, homosexuality was removed from the list, not becoause all those doctors were sure it doesn't belong there, but becouse they weren't sure it does. There's still much we don't know and indeed, further study is required into the matter, so it's safer and more jsut to remove it from the list.
However, so far nothing can be proven either way.
Ah, this is is one of those 'Trashman knows better than every learned authority' things, isn't it? And then when it becomes obvious you have not basis in fact or rationality, it's then 'nothing can be proven' and 'oh, they thought
this, because it suits my purpose'. not because, by any chance, homosexuality fits none of the characteristics of a disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7393019&dopt=AbstractCore disease is defined as a verifiable, self-conscious sensation of dysfunction and/or distress that is felt to be limitless, menacing and aid-requiring.Hmm... menacing? Nope. Aid requiring? Nope.
In contrast, conditioned diseases are states labeled as diseases by virtue of consensus on prevalent sociocultural and medical values.Ahh! your position!
The allegory with a common cold (or indeed a 6th finger) is simply ludicrous, something which only serves to reinforce your prejudice when you provide - and are unwilling or unable to provide* - no basis in rationality or logic to back it up.
Long-term I don't belive it's good for humanity, neither from a genetic nor from a moral standpoint.
Before you jump on me like a mad monkey, prove me wrong...
Firstly, as for 'moral standpoint' - **** off. That's prejudice and bigotry, pure and simple, and you have
no basis for it.
Secondly, if it was genetically negative it would
not exist; simple natural selection.
What if someone makes a cure for hetereosexuality? Do you object to if one makes that available to the public and encourages (not forces) it's use?
It stands to reason that there probably is a way to alter genes in that effect yes. If someone wants to take that therapy I'm not gonan stop him. His choice.
But your analogy is incorrect as heterosexuality clearly isn't a genetic fluke or malformation or condition.
Neither is homosexuality, in spite of your desire to label it as such.
As an admittedly Godwin's Law*aside, the Nazis shared your view that homosexuality was a defect that had to be 'cured' ("We must exterminate these people root and branch... the homosexual must be eliminated."); they just had more 'conviction' and decided to go the whole hog with putting people in concentration camps when they were unable to force people into conformity. Perhaps you would like electroshock therapy centres, maybe where the 'patient' has their eyes held open by calipers while watching hardcore porn 24 hours a day? Much cheaper than all this drug malarky, after all - use the money for actual real medical diseases that people can say exist.
Comparing me with a Natzi coause I don't share your view? Cute...
Wardens and tortures in Noth Koran prisions probably look like angels compared to you... Happy with this comparison?
Wow, that
is remarkably idiotic. I merely provided a historical parallel to your attitude; one which matched it exactly.
Now, perhaps rather than inventing ludicrous - and truly laughable - attempts at insults (I presume, because it's a really **** arguement to make), you should think about why the Nazis held that attitude, and how their stated reasons coincide with your own stated 'against' reasons involving (and I'm shocked to realise this is the case) genetic purity and social morality.
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NOTE - you don't even have to bother to reply to this post, as I won't be reading this thread anymore.
I've lost too much time on this allready, especially considered I have several mod project that need finishing...
Ah, so you realise you have no comeback and are just exposing your baseless prejudice.
