I just spent a few minutes watching a YouTube video by a guy who comes across as very intelligent, but who leans left. It’s not a long video, so please watch it for yourself:
I spent quite a bit of time browsing the comments, and they all say essentially the same thing: “Brilliant video! Anybody who disagrees is a NAZI!”
I guess I’m a Nazi then. Here’s my comment:
Your reasoning only applies to the state of being a homosexual, which a person has no control over. However, the ACT of homosexual relations does affect well-being. It most certainly does cause the spread of disease and certain health issues. AIDS, Monkey Pox and continency problems are examples linked to this practice. Therefore, by your own reasoning, it can be judged to be “immoral.” FURTHERMORE, you stated in another video that (paraphrasing here) sexual violence in video games is “immoral.” How so? In what way do such fantasies cause a detriment to wellbeing more so than homosexual sex. The opposite seems to be true.
Yes, he actually did make a video where he argued that sexual violence in video games is immoral – but not other kinds of violence. I objected to that too. In my view, fantasy cannot be, in and of itself, immoral. I don’t care how distasteful you think it is. your disgust doesn’t make someone else’s fantasy “immoral.”
Anyway, it’s extremely frustrating for me to see literally hundreds of people glossing over the distinction between sexual preference and an actual sexual act. One involves choice while the other arguable does not – and that’s a distinction the creator hinges his entire video upon!
Will anybody actually address my objection in comments? Probably not, partly because it’s a 7-year-old video, and partly because if those people are already so blind as to not see the issue initially, then nothing I say can change that; they’ll simply fling ad hominem attacks at me.
Perhaps, one could argue that people have no choice but to act upon their sexual preferences, that it’s unreasonable to expect them to refrain from sex their entire lives. Anybody making this argument would have to extend the same reasoning to pedophiles. I doubt they would do so. Also, difficult as it may seem, it is possible to be celibate one’s entire life. Therefore, it is a choice.
