Re: Homosexuality---A reply to the discussions' tone

"Of course there is,regardless of preference, the issue
of people hurting each other, sometimes deliberately, sometimes in confusion. The issue of cutting down the amount of pain seems a fruitful topic to pursue."

Is this psychology or utlitarianism? I know many people who believe their behavioral patterns bring them happiness. If you want to get into the deabte of whether we should fight for behavior that makes people "feel good the most" or behavior that will help with the individual as a social creature, then it will be fun. I confess I often times wondered what "gives me the right" to barge into a house of a person and rearranging furnature "That's not right, you have too much ego, you can't throw that blanket of remorse over your problems, what's that in the corner, in the closet? Let me see!". But then I believe that pursuing what simply makes us feel good is also destructive. If a person has had 35 sexual partners in two months, and the common thought is that he should be married with two kids now, what evidence do we have that society's or our science's norms are appropiate? Who are we?

Bruce Werner

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