Deleterious Euphuism

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@xyathon @maklelan I must be misinterpreting, because there's no way someone would make the argument that gays are bad because they're not engaging in heterosexual molestation.

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@phil_opus @Christ_like_ish @malbenV1 @maklelan Ancient religious symbol? It's a simplified image of a natural phenomenon, I don't think Jews or Christians get to claim IP rights on it because there's a story in their books about it.

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles So you just want people to use condoms and PrEP? You want society to not be so antagonistic to same-sex relationships so they don't suffer undue mental stress? I'm struggling to see why you jumped to total abstention earlier.

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles You must be imagining someone you've already spoken to about this, I'm a different person. I could explain to you why those risks you mention aren't inherent to same-sex behavior, but you're already done it seems.

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@JosephGran53660 @toyotasiennalx @maklelan @YKCPODCAST Different person with different arguments here. If anything, the fallacy I'm invoking is the equivocation fallacy, but can't expect much from someone running to ai for affirmation. Ciao.

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@JosephGran53660 @toyotasiennalx @maklelan @YKCPODCAST Your initial reply is the very act of trying to equivocate between meanings 1 and 2 while responding to someone showing why meanings 1 and 2 are noticeably different. People do not deify their values, rather some people value their deities enough to devote themselves to them.

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles Yeah what's the harm to oneself? Get to the core of it.

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@JosephGran53660 @toyotasiennalx @maklelan @YKCPODCAST Right, so bringing it back to the context, why would someone say "everyone worships something" in a context where "worship" with meaning 1 from MW is more apt? Seems like they don't say "everyone is devoted to something" because it would immediately expose the equivocation.

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@JosephGran53660 @toyotasiennalx @maklelan @YKCPODCAST You're telling me "she's a devoted mother" parses the same to you as "she worships [her motherhood/her children]"?

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@Gr8ter_is_He @mayhem_pol @michaeljknowles Not all marriages have been "legal" unions, some have been religious, and some both secular and private. I'm not changing the meaning, I'm pointing out the discrepancy between the stated definition and the word's usage. Why should we do the status-making thing?

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles And the risk is ? Besides that I don't agree that we should abstain completely from harmful or risky behaviors.

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@JosephGran53660 @toyotasiennalx @maklelan @YKCPODCAST So why not say "everyone is devoted to something"? I know why the ones who want to make everyone else seem as irrational as themselves would say it, but other than them.

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@GrimJoker146626 @maklelan @YKCPODCAST Which of the ones listed on there do you think that statement maps onto cause I'm not seeing it.

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@RonwellQDobbs @hankgreen @whalecrush We all do, but only some can say "worth".

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@suchnerve Any chance you got your scent on him beforehand somehow and she recognized it? Maybe if he was in good moods with your scent the dog could've picked up on it.

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles Ok that applies to all urges; why specifically is it good to abstain entirely from acting on same sex attraction?

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@Gr8ter_is_He @mayhem_pol @michaeljknowles It's less "I don't like it" and more "trying to keep the word exclusive to the monogamous heterosexual version is an exercise of status-making detrimental to society". What do you call the other versions of union then?

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles 🤭 ok, what's the pitch for "elevating" myself by not acting on same sex attraction? And don't just say because it's God's way. God is not just the good, but the rational, so there's a reason; what is it?

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@TheGuyBroman @michaeljknowles It's not self defeating; you guys invariably invoke the concept of same sex relations as 'unnatural' or some other such word, we disprove it and you invariably shift goalposts. The constant of course is just that you find it icky, but that's not enough to legislate on hence...