NYT: Homosexuality and Animals

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like, as an animal's life pattern gets more complicated as he gets higher on the scale, the most important instinct has to have stronger incentive so as to overcome whatever else is getting in the way at the moment (other instincts / environmental variables).

That's basically what seems to be the case. Do you see that as man becomes more cerebral and less emotional, his sexual drive could gradually wither to nothing? Could man reach a point where he is -from an evolutionary standpoint- useless, or will some other instinctual failsafe come into play?

I am interested in this topic so much because I am trying to be free from instinctual drives.


Anyway, thanks for your interesting replies. It's a good thing this thread didn't deteriorate to yet another hopeless oao vs. whomever thing. We have enough of those.

the arguable existence of a genetic predisposition toward homosexually and the personal belief that it doesn't hurt anyone make me neutral on the morailty of it.

I morally view heterosexuality and homosexuality to be equal. That is to say, that both practises are -whether natural or not- animal behaviour, and as my personal philosophy calls for their gradual abandonment. Man should choose what he wants to be, and do. I do not see anything particularily different with homosexuality since heterosexuality doesn't strictly mean making babies either. I do see however, mankind in their reactionary attempt towards nature, trying to keep the good stuff about sex going for them, while getting the whole making babies deal out of the way. Which is a simplistic stance. In that sense, what we are talking about, how nature uses pleasure to make sure we mate, is a defective practice.

Man should stop trying to regulate the conditions under we indulges in his instinctual urges, and start trying to control those urges themselves.

It's homosexuality, not homosexualism.

And I thought you Greeks liked this sort of thing?

Do you like, cry every time I make a mistake, or what? And that's like asking if all americans are mcdonalds sustained, politically inept white trash. Oh, wait!