Rbz wrote...
Edit: I realized I've been doing it wrong. After some contemplation, it seems that the entire argument stems from a false premise.
I'm glad we're on the same track now (debate-wise).
Rbz wrote...
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behavior is a choice. What isn't a choice, however, is sexual attraction/orientation.
I quote from "Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Submission to the Church of England’s Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality",
Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person’s fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment. Sexual orientation is therefore not a choice, though sexual behaviour clearly is.
With this clarification, you see why the choice of adults of the same gender to fuck wouldn't be seen the same as the choice a pedophile makes to fuck a minor.
If I were to agree with the study, I don't see what's stopping me from accepting pedophilia as a "normal" behavioral case as well. If certain biological factors of the brain don't allow us to choose who we are to fall in love with, then why are we punishing people who are sexually attracted to children seeing as how they have no choice?
If you're going to argue that pedophilia is an experience based sexual attraction, then I won't argue since I have no knowledge of how it's formed, but I can present you another case that is not experience based. Genetic sexual attraction (
GSA) is a psychological term for people who fall in love with close relatives. They can't help but love each other, so if we are allowing homosexuality to continue, why stop incest? If it's just about screwed up children, things can be "fixed", then the two incestuous couples can live happily ever after, no?
Which brings me to a similar question I asked earlier; why allow one group while barring the other? Is it some sociological ethical boundary we know shouldn't be crossed? But again, why cross one line because it is widely accepted, while keeping behind another similar line?