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The simplest way to promote heterosexuality

A perfectly acceptable definition of the word “gender” is sex, and that has been true for centuries.

That was before gender identity was known about.
Gender has definitions other than gender identity.
What are the other currently accurate definitions of gender?
 
A perfectly acceptable definition of the word “gender” is sex, and that has been true for centuries.

You don't understand the difference.

Not my obligation to explain it to you.
 
But you are arguing that they are responsible for a drop in birth rates...

No, I'm actually not arguing that.

when it's pretty clear that is almost entirely a result of straight people making decisions about when to have kids, and how many.

Correct.

There are fewer of these straight couples making decisions about when to have kids. I'm not blaming that on gays/trans/whatever. In my (admittedly crackpot) hypothesis, they could be both symptoms of the same phenomenon, which is that there's simply less pressure to reproduce, and in fact, it's even counterproductive (i.e., more competition for limited resources). Extra offspring simply aren't needed, though extra labor (from other countries, typically) usually is.

That doesn't license anyone to make up bizarre theories without evidence about the behavior of LGBT people as a result of "population pressures."

Hypothesis, not a theory. Know the difference.

To start with, it seems pretty clear that most of the time, the most "powerful drives" are for things like survival, basic material comfort, housing, safety, and sex.

No, you're looking at this through your individualistic and humanistic lens and not biologically or ecologically. Across all species, it all comes down to one thing: spreading DNA (or RNA in the case of some viruses).

I'd also say that there is little indication that individual choices about reproduction or sexual orientation have anything whatsoever to do with national birth rates. If that was the case, why aren't we seeing Japanese people having more kids? There's even a big national effort, both by the government and society itself, to push younger people to have kids, specifically because the society is shrinking. If your theory was correct, then shouldn't Japan have a) a sudden surge in birth rates and b) a sudden decline in the LGBT population?

Japan has 120 million people. Despite its declining population, most Japanese people today live in very densely populated urban centers on thin strips of mountainous land. Economically speaking, Japan has a demographics problem, but it's one that immigration could probably solve. They just choose not to because they're afraid foreigners will ruin their culture. But it doesn't have a problem of population pressure -- pressure meaning running the risk of being wiped out of existence. It's densely populated. Moreover, they have low child mortality rates.

I'm purposely avoiding the rest of your post because it's just a lot of words and much of it drifts into other threads of discussion.
 
Nor is it my obligation to familiarize you with English dictionaries.


Sex usually refers to a person’s biological characteristics, whereas gender refers to socially constructed roles and norms. Although both terms are often treated as binaries, gender is a spectrum and sex may include intersex individuals. While the terms are interrelated, they are sometimes conflated or used interchangeably in health data.
 
Seriously, open a dictionary.

 
I'm willing to wager I've had a deeper biology education than you. I've gone as far as graduate-level life sciences courses at an Ivy League school. You?

That's an insult to whatever institution you graduated from. You should demand your tuition fees back because you didn't learn even the most fundamental shit.
 
Is there any way we can promote empathy?
 
That's an insult to whatever institution you graduated from. You should demand your tuition fees back because you didn't learn even the most fundamental shit.
And with that I think we have an answer. You have has less life sciences education than I.
 
I'd also say that meddling in people's relationships, in order to basically compel them to do things they don't want to do naturally on their own (i.e. be in straight relationships and have kids) is, well, it's a bit evil.

It is evil. Of course the government shouldn’t meddle in people’s personal relationships, but that principle should apply across the board. If it’s wrong to pressure adults into relationships they don’t want, it’s also wrong to force relationships between employers and employees or business owners and customers. Whatever the context, all adult human relationships should be voluntary. That’s why the state should stay out of all of them.
 
Promote heterosexuality? LOL
 
How about instead of all that bulshit, we just unite in stopping scumbags from pushing their pedo-grooming agenda onto children.

Leave the children alone.

How about that.
 
How about instead of all that bulshit, we just unite in stopping scumbags from pushing their pedo-grooming agenda onto children.

Leave the children alone.

How about that.

Start with the churches.
 
That was before gender identity was known about.

What are the other currently accurate definitions of gender?
A synonym for sex have you not looked the word up in the dictionary yet?

It can also be a grammatical sub class of nouns referring to other languages. La pelota or El Gato. In many languages the word the in a sentence is different based on the gender of the noun.

That's two different definitions that have nothing to do with identity.
 
Can’t say your posting history has put a great deal of it on display.
The very last thing that good people, who are fighting evil, should do is show empathy for evil people. No one should have ever shown empathy for Adolf Hitler or Idi Amin or Pol Pot.

Since the Trump Administration has killed USAID and millions of humans will now die because of that, no one should show empathy for Donald Trump.

If evil people or murderers or rapists or those who make gay kids and trans kids depressed and commit suicide sincerely want to change their ways and repent and become good people then everyone should show empathy for them.

By the way, good job being a libertarian.
 
How about instead of all that bulshit, we just unite in stopping scumbags from pushing their pedo-grooming agenda onto children.

Leave the children alone.

How about that.
What exactly are you referring to? Are you talking about child marriages and age of consent laws that are lower than 18?
 
What exactly are you referring to? Are you talking about child marriages and age of consent laws that are lower than 18?
If you would like to take that on be my guest. Most states already have some version of law that govern age of consent. I'm more concerned with the sick leftist ****s that think it is appropriate to continuously push their pro-groomer agenda on children as young as 3 years old in preschool, kindergarten and elementary schools. If you arent capable of understanding that, there isnt much use in having a dialogue.
 
If you would like to take that on be my guest. Most states already have some version of law that govern age of consent. I'm more concerned with the sick leftist ****s that think it is appropriate to continuously push their pro-groomer agenda on children as young as 3 years old in preschool, kindergarten and elementary schools
What is a pro-groomer agenda when a persons sexual orientation cannot be changed? the failure of conversion theory is proof of that claim. Did someone tell you that the gay agenda exists?

. If you arent capable of understanding that, there isnt much use in having a dialogue.

Coming from you this statement is very ironic.
 
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