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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
I would say it is perfectly fine. However, the "pride" that the members of the LGBTQ+ community want to express is not "pride" in its usual meaning. They are not "proud", ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
Pride is an emotion. It is irrational to expect rationality from emotions.
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
Being proud of your sexual orientation or gender only works when the opposite is expected. Pride started at a time where LGBT+ people were expected to feel shame. Starting as a kid from parents, ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
The simple answer, or rather response, to your question is that such words are being used simply as a slogan, a political statement.
There is utterly no connection to philosophy, or any philosophical ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
Normality or normativity has two senses when applied to homosexuality. One is a biological sense, and the other is a cultural sense. In socially liberal societies, to say that homosexuality is normal ...
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Why does my appreciation of female physical beauty tend to be presumed to be sexual?
Firstly, women are not art. Women are people.
You are not prohibited from seeing women as art. If you want to examine the female form as art, why not go to an art museum? Or join a life-drawing class?...
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist?
Well, one might say 'Love is just a word' (YT).
However, deepities aside, to take an analytical and linguistic approach to answering the question, the term 'love' is polysemous. It has multiple ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
A similar issue arose a few years ago when the president of Smith College used the phrase "all lives matter" in a public speech. Some students subsequently protested, arguing that the phrase ...
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Is artificially generating images of minors in sexual positions unethical?
It's an interesting edge case in practice, with many different legal stances around the world.
In the USA, the potential problems associated with such material, largely do not outweigh free speech ...
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Morality of watching porn
Ill try to answer your actual question, but there are many views, and many possible answers, as I am sure you are aware.
Porn (and the wider sex industry) is a sector of human activities where there ...
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Violence vs Sex: Why are we typically more comfortable with graphic violence than explicit sex in gaming, television and film?
This does not look like a philosophical question, but one about cultural history.
Violence as an act drives a narrative. By committing an act of violence, a story character can significantly and ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
There are variations in almost everything. In everyday language, if the extent or nature of a variation is to some degree striking, exceptional or especially important then we call it abnormal- often ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
Our current society in the West considers homosexuality normal or acceptable. A few generations ago we did not. Other modern societies consider it abnormal and unacceptable. It is a biologically ...
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Is it philosophically justifiable to consider sexual assault worse than murder?
I personally agree that there should be no question that murder is worse than rape. Deep down most people really agree. Even women. Simple proof. More women submit to rapists pointing guns at them ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
Independent of adjectives, such as acceptable or rational, the human children of alloparenting apes apparently feel pride and shame in their respective personal drama. If the biological end or goal of ...
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Why did Kant condemn masturbation?
Tim Jankowiak writes the following about Kant's ethics:
Kant also argued that his ethical theory requires belief in free will, God, and the immortality of the soul. Although we cannot have ...
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How do ethicists tackle the question "Is it immoral to have sex in public places?" Is it possible to use rational and empirical ideas to answer?
It’s about why morality evolved. Shame evolved to avoid being vulnerable, for instance while defecating. Disgust evolved to avoid hazards from infection. Humans hijacked these to serve cultural ends, ...
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Thales's views on marriage and sexuality
The source of stories about Thales, marriage, children and sexuality is mainly Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, given extra circulation in Plutarch's Lives.
Given, ...
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Is Homosexuality considered moral because it was seen in 'nature'?
Male lions eat the cubs of other lions to maximize the chances of their own offspring thriving. This is natural behavior, yet no one will ever argue that it is moral behavior.
Arguments against the ...
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Violence vs Sex: Why are we typically more comfortable with graphic violence than explicit sex in gaming, television and film?
I think you are over-generalizing a feature of America to the entire world. Japanese media, particularly anime, is way more comfortable with sexuality than American media. For example, there is one ...
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist?
Philosophy is itself a mode of love or desire — a “love of wisdom” or desire for truth. Therefore love is a key but complicated problematic which ought to be differentiated from other concepts sharply....
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist?
It is not that complicated. One definition that I find useful is: "To Will The Good Of Another." This doesn't depend on anything except the ordinary meaning of the words. Anyone can Will, ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
"Normal" and "Natural" are not simple ideas; they often include value judgements, sometimes as good and sometimes as bad. One needs to consider the context of their use to discern ...
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual?
As NtLake said, "Pride" here to a large extent means the opposite of "shame", not "feeling superior".
When people talk about LBGT people feeling pride, they aren't ...
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Why is love esteemed and lust condemned in the teachings of most world religions, and does this asymmetry also hold in secular humanism?
Sexual desire is the strongest motivating desire of primates. As such it's also a disruptive force that easily leads to transgressions -- including violent transgressions -- of whatever social or ...
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The perverted faculty argument
An answer to your specifically stated question:
Yes, the distinction is meaningful. But it has to be understood within the context of the specific faculty, agent, and end. If you hold that sexual ...
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The perverted faculty argument
" “contrary to” and “other than” "
Surely ig0774 is correct. That something is, or can be, contrary to an aim, is an uncomplicated idea, and free of difficulty. Aristotle spoke of people who ...
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Is Homosexuality considered moral because it was seen in 'nature'?
First, you overestimate the agreement that incest is morally wrong. Yes, I would find it viscerally disgusting to “mate” with my sister, but many philosophers wouldn't accept this subjective feeling ...
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Is promiscuity wrong?
I can't speak to any justification of "reflexive disdain" for promiscuity (which seems a bit harsh to me), but I can certainly think of some basic economic/game-theoretic arguments one might make to ...
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