Nilatai wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
Please explain the difference. How is it ok to judge someone based on their sexual behavior but not someone else?
Easy, homosexuals are consenting adults. Next question.
No one's arguing that it should be illegal to be homosexual either. He's talking about personal judgment, not legality. If I were to say that skat-play is disgusting, no one would call me a bigot. But if I were to say that homosexual sex is disgusting, many would. Pretty arbitrarily subjective, isn't it?
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Personally I don't think prostitution should be illegal. It should be legalised, regulated (with mandatory health checks etcetera) and taxed.
I agree. To bring it back to the semi-legal aspect of something like DADT, how many people would think it's unfair or some violation of someones sexuality if they were discharged from the military for unbecoming conduct for disclosing publicly that they engage in skat-play? You may be discharged for any activity or behavior, even while off duty, which reflects poorly on the uniform and the armed forces, right? If you'd like, I could proceed to list off increasingly less acceptable sexual activities (even just involving consenting adults) to make this point, but hopefully you can imagine where I'm going so we don't have to go there.
The point is that we do make such judgments. And those judgments are somewhat arbitrary. And I don't think it's at all unreasonable to apply a slippery slope argument here for exactly that reason. As we convince ourselves to be more accepting of different things, the bar for what can be judged "unacceptable" keeps moving. We can call that good, or bad, but I think we ought to at least acknowledge that this process does happen. We see this in all forms of media over time. Things that were risque a half century ago are downright quaint today. We do keep pushing the boundaries of good taste here. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Hell, I'm a hedonist. I'd love to live in a world where everyone walks around semi-naked and fu
cking in public is as common as a handshake. Hopefully, they'll have invented some sort of serum to make everyone perfect and beautiful in this magical future wonderland, but that's sorta beside the point. Despite my personal opinions though, I do respect those who do think different and argue against continuing this process. I don't sit around and pretend that one thing wont lead to another. Because if we're honest, we damn well know that it will. Just because I have nutty ideas about where I'd like our sexual mores to go doesn't mean that I justify lying in order to trick people into getting there.