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Where do we draw the line of “it’s natural”?

I hear so many claims about homosexuality being natural because it occurs in the animal kingdom but what about the following which also occurs in the animal kingdom?

Cross species sex (beastiality or zoophilia)

Necrophilia

Pedophilia

Killing one another within the same species

Killing the offspring of another within the same species.

All these accounts have been documented so why do people use “it’s natural” to argue for homosexuality? Isn’t this argument flawed?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Weather something is natural or unnatural is completely irrelevant to weather it's moral or immoral. Nobody would be making the "homosexuality is natural" argument if your side hadn't been saying for years that it was unnatural. We're not saying that because it's natural that it's ok, however, your side has been saying that because it unnatural (which it isn't) that it's not ok. Even if it was unnatural, that wouldn't tell us weather it was moral or immoral. There are many things that are unnatural that are morally good and many that are morally neutral. Take the computers we are using to use the internet for example. They are completely unnatural, yet they provide a means of communication which is neither good nor bad particularly, however some would say that it is more good than bad. There's nothing natural about marriage, or celibacy, or gathering together every 7 days in a big building called a church. Do you think any of these things are immoral?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Everything that occurs in nature, is in fact natural. Sodomy specifically states it is unnatural sex; therefore homosexuality does not apply. Using a condom however, is not natural... it does not occur in nature. Therefore protected sex is sodomy.

    When something natural happens so much, our bodies adjust to it. We have proof of this, because many male to male species experience a * receiving* orgasm when being done.

  • 1 decade ago

    Natural doesn't necessarily mean right. In nature we also see rape and incest, two acts which society finds abhorrent because of the nature of them. However homosexuality is consensual and does not affect the progeny negatively. In fact it doesn't affect anyone outside of the couple in question. So why should it be wrong? Nobody is being hurt by this.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, it's not flawed. Homosexuality naturally occurs. And why do you have a problem with what some consenting adults do with their naughty bits?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Pat Robertson and the Pope are supposed to be natural. Let's draw the line there, and work our way back to sanity.

  • 1 decade ago

    *Everything* that occurs in nature is, by definition, natural. You can't draw a line on any of them in terms of being natural. Now in terms of morality, that is a different story.

  • 1 decade ago

    "It's natural" is used as a counter argument to people who claim that homosexuality is "unnatural."

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    people say that because opponents of it, say that it's not natural. So it's more to point out that it's no more unnatural than heterosexuality.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Humans are part of nature so anything that humans do is natural.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Homosexuality acts happen between consenting adults... it's natural.

    I don't care what consenting adults do with each other...

    I'm wondering why you do.

    Oh, yes; gay sex is constantly in your thoughts.

    I never think of gay sex cos I'm straight.

    It must suck to be you.”

    ~

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