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Originally posted by nanofever
I'm deeply confused by the bigot comment. Could you please make what you are implying/saying more clear ?
And for the Kleptomaniac thing it depends on the situation. If I am a professional thief/fence then being a kleptomaniac is an advantage. If I am a vault guard it might be a problem.
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Okay. I mean that I don't consider it necessarily bigoted to believe that homosexual activity is a sin. But, certainly, some are bigoted about it. Like the father who disowns his gay son. I'm talking about the line between tolerating and not tolerating people who commit this alleged sin. It's the cliche of 'love the sinner, hate the sin.' Does that make more sense?
The same goes for considering homosexuality itself to be a sin. I don't consider this necessarily bigoted either, although I do think that it's a bad viewpoint, that it's not a matter of choice as such people believe.
The kleptomaniac thing, in the moral sense, doesn't depend on the situation. It's always immoral to steal. That's why I used it in a second analogy for homosexuality; the other viewpoint is that homosexuality is a desire to sin in a particular way. And that would be a deficiency.