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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Homophobia
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 17:03:36 EST
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In article <4998@fortune.UUCP> brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower) writes:

>As for your last sentence:
>Is your fear of practicing homosexuality based on the fact the you are
>afraid of what the neighbors will say?  Does numerical superiority imply
>better?

Ah yes, homophobia again.... Is it true that practicing homosexuality allows
one to read other's minds?  No?  Then how is it that you conclude that I fear
homosexuality?  I submit that you have DECIDED that suffer from [gasp]

                          HOMOPHOBIA!!!!!!!!

because it's rhetorically convenient.  It's always handy to be able to
attribute one's opponent's views to psychological motivations rather than go
through the trouble of actually having to rebut their arguments.  Well, now,
let's try that shoe on the other foot.... What if homosexuals accusations of
homophobia against their opponents were caused by deep-seated insecurities
about the rightness of homosexuality?  Gee, that shoe seems to fit REAL well
on that foot too....

I find arguments about the other side's psychological motivations to be 
rubbish, unless (of course) they're backed up with some hard evidence.  As
in this case, they are normally a sign of a weak argument.

Oh, by the way.... My statement about numerical superiority was directed at
the questions, not homosexuality per se.  I don't think much of the notion of
majority morality.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe