There’s one more belief needed for that complex to make sense—that the costs (both to homosexuals and to heterosexuals) of suppressing homosexuality are low enough to counterbalance the benefits.
I was considering adding it in, but I think the costs of the missed ‘lives worth living’ would likely exceed it greatly, assuming the first premise is true.
Edit: I just editted it in, and then re-removed it. Firstly, it makes the whole thing trivial, and secondly, I was only presenting a sketch of a case- really, we’d need a cost-benefit analysis. Rather, this is outlining one of the benefits.
If you’re trying to convey a system of thought you don’t agree with, you might as well include all the bits and pieces.
The interesting thing about that anti-homosexual argument is it considers the costs of repressing homosexuality to be so low for homosexuals that they aren’t even generally conscious for the conservative.
Also, there are costs to non-homosexuals—frex, it’s rough for a heterosexual to be married to a homosexual who’d hoped (with support from their culture) that they’d get over their homosexuality.
And if a homosexual is driven to suicide, it’s very hard on their family.
Well, part of the idea may be that you’re not repressing, you’re curing: they cease to be homosexual. They’re ex ante pleased to be cured, and the cost of healing/oppressing is one-time rather than life-long.
Whatever the suicide rate would be, I doubt it’s high enough to make up for the loss of potential-children.
I’m sure that’s part of the premise, but my point was that the low cost is simply assumed rather than examined. Also, the possibility of a failure rate isn’t considered.
None of the premises are examined; they’re all assumed. Clearly, as we all agree the argument is unsound at least one of them (including those implied but not delineated) must be false, and it’s not particularly important which. What Morendil asked for, more or less, was a rational argument against private homosexuality.
Obviously, no unsound argument should be stable under reflection, but from the point of view of Classical Logic this seems to satisfy the requirements.
If you’d like it more formally, I’ll write out all the premises in full and come up with a cost/benefit analysis / natural deduction proof—but it wouldn’t help answer the request, because we’re not discussing whether or not private homosexuality is bad, but whether there are any (close enough to) rational arguments for the other side.
There’s one more belief needed for that complex to make sense—that the costs (both to homosexuals and to heterosexuals) of suppressing homosexuality are low enough to counterbalance the benefits.
I was considering adding it in, but I think the costs of the missed ‘lives worth living’ would likely exceed it greatly, assuming the first premise is true.
Edit: I just editted it in, and then re-removed it. Firstly, it makes the whole thing trivial, and secondly, I was only presenting a sketch of a case- really, we’d need a cost-benefit analysis. Rather, this is outlining one of the benefits.
If you’re trying to convey a system of thought you don’t agree with, you might as well include all the bits and pieces.
The interesting thing about that anti-homosexual argument is it considers the costs of repressing homosexuality to be so low for homosexuals that they aren’t even generally conscious for the conservative.
Also, there are costs to non-homosexuals—frex, it’s rough for a heterosexual to be married to a homosexual who’d hoped (with support from their culture) that they’d get over their homosexuality.
And if a homosexual is driven to suicide, it’s very hard on their family.
I’m not familiar with this word but I’ve seen you use it a couple of times now. Google didn’t enlighten me either. Is it short for for example?
Yes. I didn’t realize it was so rare.
Well, part of the idea may be that you’re not repressing, you’re curing: they cease to be homosexual. They’re ex ante pleased to be cured, and the cost of healing/oppressing is one-time rather than life-long.
Whatever the suicide rate would be, I doubt it’s high enough to make up for the loss of potential-children.
I’m sure that’s part of the premise, but my point was that the low cost is simply assumed rather than examined. Also, the possibility of a failure rate isn’t considered.
None of the premises are examined; they’re all assumed. Clearly, as we all agree the argument is unsound at least one of them (including those implied but not delineated) must be false, and it’s not particularly important which. What Morendil asked for, more or less, was a rational argument against private homosexuality.
Obviously, no unsound argument should be stable under reflection, but from the point of view of Classical Logic this seems to satisfy the requirements.
If you’d like it more formally, I’ll write out all the premises in full and come up with a cost/benefit analysis / natural deduction proof—but it wouldn’t help answer the request, because we’re not discussing whether or not private homosexuality is bad, but whether there are any (close enough to) rational arguments for the other side.