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Originally posted by FoolThemAll
Kleptomania is something that should be treated, because the behavior that it can lead to is immoral.
Homosexuality might fit in the same category. It depends on whether the behavior that it can lead to is immoral. If you have some method of demonstrating that it's morally okey-dokey, then the analogy will be defeated.
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Moral an immoral are such slippery terms. No behavior is ever always moral or always immoral. I don't think you can really compare kleptomania to homosexuality in that way. I think kleptomania is a compulsion, while homosexuality is no more a compulsion than heterosexuality. That is to say, a gay man likes to sex-up other men, but isn't compulsively sexxing-up another man at every opportunity. Kleptos steal uncontrollably. Stealing also requires a victim, homosexuality does not.