Homosexuality

[Answerprancer]

1) Is it nature's way of telling us to keep our population under control?
2) Nature or nurture ?
Discuss.
(Now I'll duck and run for cover!)

[NoMercy]

Yogi ... You are one sick bear ... ;)

[yogi-bear]

I try NoM, you sexy minx xx

[NoMercy]

Lol xx

[Answerprancer]

Sqad, your "end of species" argument seems a bit feeble to me.
The human species is an ever adapting entity and there is - by all accounts - a fluctuating percentage of individuals who are of a non-breeding sexual persuasion amongst (arguably) a majority of people who either breed or at least have the potential to.
Of course I am addressing issue #1 of my OP when I say that I believe that as a unique species we have innate mechanisms to control ourselves for our successful future.
My suspicion is that you are hiding behind some pre-meditated 'survival of the fittest' b*llocks in order to rationalise your personal revulsion of homosexuality.

[Sqad]

AP.......you may well be correct.

Your description of my "revulsion" to homosexuality is a bit over the top, but it goes down well on AB....................which is the important factor.

[ummmm]

2) Nature.

My Aunt has 3 children. Eldest son is straight, middle son is gay, daughter is gay. Eldest sons daughter is gay.

[doctordb]

Darwin never used the words 'survival of the fittest'- it was a phrase coined by Herbert spencer and the context in which it used in modern times bears no relation to its original meaning.

by the way- 1. no. 2. nature.

[LazyGun]

@doctor db - Just a minor, very pedantic point You are right that Herbert Spencer is credited with coining the term, "survival of the fittest" ( as I mentioned in my own post on the previous page).

Its wrong to say that Darwin never used the phrase though. From wiki
"Darwin first used Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for natural selection in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869.[2][3] Darwin meant it as a metaphor for "better adapted for immediate, local environment", not the common inference of "in the best physical shape".[4] Hence, it is not a scientific description"

[doctordb]

Lg- there is nothing wrong in being pedantic, especially when you are correct.