Darth Wong wrote:There is no need to postulate that bisexuality or homosexuality is beneficial from an evolutionary perspective. Evolution, unlike Christianity, is NOT a worldview. It is a scientific theory: nothing more and nothing less. If something is not advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, that does not make it immoral.
It is disadvantageous from an evolutionary standpoint to find ways of treating genetic disease (as opposed to simply letting the victims die off). Does that mean it's immoral? Of course not. So there is no fucking reason to bring up the "purpose" of sex or imagined evolutionary advantages/justifications in order to refute their bullshit claims about homosexuality being a sin.
Like far too many Biblical "sin", it is victimless, hence not a sin. So the homophobes can just go fuck off.
I wasn't necessarily postulating that homosexuality was beneficial from a purely evolutionary perspective, but rather that homosexuals could have fulfilled a useful role in early societal organizations. It would be broadly similiar in this case to a post-laydown society in which the people who'd been rendered sterile by radiation effects would be given the most dangerous tasks, regardless of gender. Our ancestors, after all, were as intelligent as we were, and the solution to every problem was not necessarily applied brutality.