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Originally Posted by timalkin
I'm not really sure what is gained by revealing this type of information. A biological basis for homosexuality simply means that homosexuality is some sort of genetic mutation that is undesirable in the grand scheme of life. Since homosexuals don't bear offspring, they don't pass their genetic material to another generation.
It's not such a big deal in the human world where we set goals other than having children and raising them, but a homosexual animal is very undesirable in nature. An animal's most important goal in life is to produce offspring. It's safe to say that any homosexual animal species died out long ago.
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I was talking to a friend the other day and we were talking about gayness and population control. (I am not really sure how we got on the topic.) But what she said stuck in my head. "Gay people are a type of population control because they do not reproduce." And I can't help but think, on some level, that is true. Just the same as the woman who can not have babies are a form of population control.
It is also a little amazing to me, that while we can, now, say that homosexuality is breed from a biological (as you put it) "mutation", we can not say what it's source is. It is not as you say "passed down" from mother or father to child.
I am a little nervous, that if we do find a cause for homosexuality it will become one of those things that most be fixed. And, to be honest, I am not sure that it needs to be fixed. That is because I am not sure it is "undesirable in the grand scheme of life."
Most animals have a form of population control, and don't need help keeping their numbers in line with their surroundings. Humans are not one of those animals.