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From: gazit@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.motss,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Rocks and Homosexuals
Summary: Some basic biology.
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Date: 30 Mar 89 16:15:14 GMT
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In article <78146WGN@PSUVM> WGN@PSUVM.BITNET (James Whitehead) writes:

>This abominable lifestyle would never be selected by nature. 

Nature has some strange ways.  Mice and rabbits multiply their number *fast*.
Elephants and polar bears, and other animals with no natural enemy, multiply
but in a slow rate.  What's the point? 
Why there is no evolution advantages to elephants who multiply fast?

Basic biology books explain that if there would be too many elephants there
will not be enough food, and in the *long* run (which is the important one in
evolution terms) they will run out of food and die.  Nature gave them some
mechanism to prevent them from doing it.

What about human beings?  We multiply fast (but not as fast as mice), and we
destroy the ecological balance on this planet.  Do we have any mechanism that
can cause us to slow it?  I claim that homosexuality *may* be such a mechanism.

Homosexuality was popular in ancient Greek.  A relatively high culture in an
area with limited resources.  That culture was quite successful.

>Also, in the definition of life is the
>ability to reproduce, and an argument could be made that homosexuals
>aren't even alive since if they continue this gross lifestyle they won't
>ever reproduce. One could then make a similiar comparison between
>killing a homosexual and kicking a stone.

What about 50 years old childless women?  What about straights who decide not
to have children and take some active steps (sterilization for example)?

Why people who don't to help in the destruction of the world drive you so mad? 

>My Disclaimer: I do not discriminate against others on the basis of
>race, or color. I do discriminate against others on the basis of
>personality and sexual preference because i believe the person has
>made a choice to live that way.

And I believe that you (Jame Whitehead) made a choice to be an asshole.

>'And when my girlie shakes her head, | James Whitehead

Hillel                       gazit@cs.duke.edu

"What is life?  Life is the Nation.  The individual must die anyway.  Beyond the
life of the individual is the Nation.  But how can anyone be afraid of this
moment of death, with which he can free himself from this misery, if his duty
doesn't chain him to this Vale of Tears.  Na!"   --   Adolf Hitler