If you know you need to prove it or shut up basically. I dont know why you bothered to go this far if your not prepared to nail it and or prove athos and I wrong.
What was the point?The point was just to point out the absurdity of athos's comments.
[Well why attack me then? go to the maker of those claims]
He is welcome to try to back them up, but given that A) he seems to have plucked his statistics from thin air,
[You cant know that he did]
with no thought and B) it flies in the face of well established common knowledge regarding homosexuality
[well established ?..I see so you cant make a case for such "well established " infornmation yet you continue to go on and on and not proving or disproving anything at all]
, I see no need to 'prove' my case.
[then dont ask me to prove mine]
Athos's absurd comment, and your support for it, have no basis at all. Thus there is no need for anyone to try to invalidate them
[if you call me names and belittle my veiws then I think you do]
. You can't go round making absurd claims like that with no effort to back them up
[its my veiwpoint and I do have evidence but then thats my business ]
, then expect people to respect them unless they make all the effort to introduce evidence.
[your the one who said that athos was an ignoramus and me likewise for daring to agree in anyway shape or form]
To give an example, suppose someone claimed that America does not exist. You could A) ignore them or B) try to satisfy whatever standard of proof they require, which is bound to be as absurd as their original claim.
[not anything like the same argument..NEXT!!!]
I for one don't feel compelled to go to the effort of disproving every absurd comment I see online, especially if it involves statistics that were made up on the spot and no evidence.
[You have'nt even spoken yet to athos FD so how do you know yet what he is working with?..you are being proposperous right now]
In fact, the original claim cannot be disproved. You or athos could just claim that the gay people who were surveyed didn't want to admit they only turned gay because they were raped
[BUT WE DIDNT..and I certainly did'nt.]
. It is one of those insidious theories provides it's own jusitification for lack of evidence, but at the same time providing justification for oppression of gays
homosexuals Freediver
. It is the age old 'homosexuality as a disease' theory
[in your world maybe]
, with the act of sex itself also transmitting the disease
[again ,sounds like your predjudice not mine ]
. According to this theory, we could virtually wipe out homosexuality, and prevent a lot of rapes, by locking up all gay people. Homosexualty would then drop by 99% in one generation. [color=#ff0000[how does the SIDE issue of pedeophiles can traumatise young boys to the point of confusing / impairing their psychological development so that in the future they may actually be confused if they are actually straight or gay translate to your hysterical assertions about what you THINK I mean? good grief[/color]
Do you really need any more evidence of the absurdity of this claim?
Evidence ..??? your joking right!!!! This whole rave of yours was hardly relevant to anything I have ever said on this topic about gay pple and as for athos...he hasnt even said his peice or defended himself at all...
If you really do see homosexuality as a disease
[Wild accusations based in nothing ..AGAIN].
, spread by gay sex, where do you stand on quarantining gay people to prevent the further spread of the disease?
[Where do you stand..its your nightmare we are living here dude
Where do you stand on trying to 'cure' people of this disease?
[They dont need to be cured..or do you believe they do..once again your predjudice not mine and the fact you raise all these questions that btw never even entered my head means we are dealing with your issues NOT MINE!]
After all, gay people are like zombies according to you,
I suspect maybe according to you in fact- your words not mine
out to make more zombies until everyone is gay, right?
You sound hysterical and irrational Freediver...its only damaged your argument..
So Freediver your a christian right?..where do you stand on the Church not recognising homosexuals?
And excuse a little atheist like me not knowing squat about this but why does the Church not recognise homosexuals ??..do you support that stance by the church?