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- From: dostalik@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Bill Dostalik)
- Subject: Re: antihomosexualism a phobia -- *NOT*! -- *NOT*!
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- References: <Bz4oLq.JI6@ns1.nodak.edu> <Jym.18Dec1992.1224@naughty-peahen> <casivils.724976979@node_508ba>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:12:29 GMT
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- In article <casivils.724976979@node_508ba> casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils) writes:
- >In <Jym.18Dec1992.1224@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >
- >>> I think Jeff has made one of the most reasoned statements
- >>> lately about the stand most "normal" people take. We don't
- >>> "fear" homosexuals, we don't "hate" homosexuals, we just feel
- >>> homosexuality is wrong.
- >
- >>=\= Technically speaking, a phobia isn't necessarily fear, it
- >>is an irrational aversion to something. This often manifests
- >>itself as fear and as hatred.
- >>=\= But homophobia also includes "just feeling that it's wrong,"
- >>if such is irrational. And what could be rational about an
- >>aversion to something that's none of your business and doesn't
- >>involve you?
- >
- >LOGIC FLAW!!!!!!
- >Is this the new scale for morality? If it doesn't effect you then you
- >have no right do decide if it is right or wrong? Then any successful murder
- >can't be wrong because the killer did it and the victim is gone. (Yes, the
- >example is extreme but the fundamental logic is the same, this is my life and
- >you should accept anything that I decide to do for myself).
-
- On the money, my friend. Another extreme example: the starvation in Somalia
- doesn't affect me, and the warlords activities are none of my business, but
- I support intervention: therefore I am warlordaphobic?
-
- >>=\= I can understand such an aversion out of ignorance, since
- >>ignorance on this issue is so abundant. But to maintain the
- >>aversion in the face of facts that don't support it -- well,
- >>that's irrational. Phobic, in fact.
- >> <_Jym_>
-
- Hmm... Christophobia? or perhaps more generally, Judeo-Christophobia?
-
- > Craig
-
- - Bill Go Sooners!
-