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Originally Posted by Kurn, son of Mogh
Of course. Rules come from necessity. 5,000 years ago, 80% of babies died in the first year of life. Guess what? You can't have sex unless you're trying to make a baby. Every other type endangers the tribe. Thus the rule against homosexuality. That rule made sense back then, and for a long time in human history. Survival >>> Freedom. That same rule makes no sense now.
This kind of armchair evolutionary psychology is so ******ed - a kind of simplistic, evidence-free, ad hoc theorizing that's possibly stupider than religion (and that's a big ask).
No, dislike of gays has nothing to do with the necessity of reproduction. No, acceptance of homosexuality now has nothing to do with the lack of necessity of reproduction. Neither has anything to do with evolutionary psychology.
Homosexuality has been widely practiced and openly allowed throughout history, as well as widely reviled, from the Greeks who were open and happy pedophiles of young boys, to the Jews who forbade it as sinful. None of these relate to breeding. They're simply philosophically different views of life and proper behavior.
In fact, even in America, acceptance of homosexuality has gone from 37% to 57% in a few years. Our brains haven't evolved, nor have we discovered reason or new circumstances in the last few years. What's happened is that the commentariat class has simply made it a cause, after years of strident, hateful lobbying by gay groups, and people are sheep who go along with the opinion makers (the same reason people at large net supported slavery).
Nothing here has anything to do with evolutionary psychology. People have a dislike of homosexuality because it's weird and dysfunctional. Dislike of homosexuality comes from the same basic place as it does for kids picking on people who dress or talk differently. It has nothing to do with necessities of breeding. And the dislike is easy enough to override with sufficient conditioning. As are dislikes of many things, including foods, sexual preferences, accents, and so on.
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Not to mention that almost everybody who scoffs at evolution has a total misconception of how it works.
Most of the people who support it have almost as strong a misconception.