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Can we have a definition of "normal" please?
Okay, one narrow sense of normal. I keep seeing posts saying that homosexuality isn't normal, which is why you don't see animals doing it. When it's pointed out that actually a whole lot of the animal kingdom has a whole lot of gay sex, including some of our closest relatives, like bonobos and baboons, they say that just because animals do it doesn't make it right because we're morally superior to animals.
Which argument is it going to be? Can we maybe put it to a vote?
1. If it isn't normal, animals won't do it.
2. Just because animals do it doesn't make it normal.
3. This is a stupid analogy and we should avoid both versions at all costs.
Which one should we use?
@Little Red Riding Hood: Bononos ARE great apes. They're the other half of the Pan genus with chimpanzees, and are considered equally close to humans by DNA analysis.
@MacGuyver: Thanks, but I've read the Bible back to front repeatedly--in fact, it's the main reason I'm no longer a Christian.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
3 plz.
- 1 decade ago
Animals also eat poopy diapers.
We are morally superior to animals. However, normal? There is no such thing in my opinion. Normal is whatever the world makes it, and half the world has a different version then the other half. So, why does it matter what someone else thinks to be normal?
- The Andyman CanLv 51 decade ago
The whole argument is futile because normal does not equal correct, and different does not equal wrong. Normal means average. Being right-handed is normal. Being left-handed is not normal. Being left-handed is not morally wrong.
Immorality has to do with harm to others or yourself, and writing/sexual preference has nothing to do with harm. Relative to all living things, homosexuality is not normal. However, relative to all living things, SEX is not normal. Asexuality is far more common. Relative to the universe, LIFE is not normal...so once again, it's all relative.
- 1 decade ago
Normal; as defined in Webster's Dictionary.2. According to a rule or principle.
As you want to so much for homosexual behavior to be normal, when it's an abomination, and animals performing the same action were put to death because of the Abnormal behavior. If as you suppose the banobos and baboon are our closest relation, I beg to defer. The great apes are more likely to fall into that category. I am sure that the chimpanzees are in the great ape category too, and they perform cannibalism on their defeated foes, they EAT them, so being as you suppose that we are not that far removed from them, do you say also that we need to feed on each other to since the great ape like the chimp eats other chimps?
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- Christian SinnerLv 71 decade ago
As a Christian I realize that none of us are "natural". As a Christian (I'm Bi too), I realize that normal is operating within the parameters determined by a society, clique, group, etc.
So my brethren are all upset because homosexuals have raised in their presence on the earth! We can see them better now!
But the truth is according to the Bible I read that we are all "not normal" if Normal is what a being is without a sin nature.
So if any of us is going to call the other "immoral" we might as well include ourselves in that argument.
The reason why I say this is because as a Christian I realize that Jesus said the default condition is "condemned". We might be able to get to the level of "not condemned", but that is done only by trusting in the one God sent Jesus Christ; according to Him.
So what my politically polarized brethren are doing is taking the role of hypocrite. They act as if they are the only "normal" ones who have their own special little corner on God.
But that's not the Gospel according to Jesus Christ! According to him we are all "abnormal", we are all abominations, we are all condemned, but he makes us "normal" by His standards through Jesus Christ by trusting in Him.
- duke nukemLv 51 decade ago
Homosexuality is not normal in my opinion. But that does not make it wrong. If it is what they want to do its totally up to them.
being not normal does not make something bad. Normal is a term for what is average. The average person does not play a professional sport. That does not make NFL players immoral.
- Weise EnteLv 71 decade ago
On average, the human male has 1.99 testicles.
Normal is a imaginary word that exists only in the realm of statistics.
- maguyver727Lv 71 decade ago
Hello!
1. GOD Almighty Created US and Our Star System and The Planet "Earth".
It ALL got Messed Up---when Adam Blew-It.
2. Only "GOD" Knows what "Normal" is on the Planet "Earth".
You will have to get into Contact with GOD Almighty.
Romans 10:9, (in the Bible) will Get YOU into Contact with GOD.
Do It! (Romans 10:9), you Will Never Regret It! ;)
Hey! Reading The Bible will Help You Too!
- 1 decade ago
Normal is pure unbridled rationality, but add religion to the mix and everything that rationality calls "different" becomes "damning."
- littleelttilmikLv 51 decade ago
its normal- the ancient greeks were nearly all gay...women were a necessary evil. Christianity simply introduced the concept of abnormality then itself got infiltrated by closet gays and introduced celibacy to hide it.
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- mo in the middleLv 71 decade ago
Genius isn't normal either.
Just because something doesn't fall in the middle of the bell curve doesn't mean it's bad.
"Normal" is completely irrelevant in this argument.