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Originally Posted by Archaea
You have boiled a complex characteristic in moral terms.
Why not look at the characteristic in the other terms in which it can be analyzed?
First, you identified it as a trait, and connecting it with the activity. For you and me, heterosexuals, it's a difficult trait to understand, it's incomprehensible to us.
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I'll be bashed for any comparison I could possibly make. Caveat that I am NOT saying these are the "same".
But ...
- pedophilia is incomprehensible to me
- suicide is incomprehensible to me
- suffering from mental defect that robs me of my intellect is incomprehensible to me
- dependence on a subsstnace such as drugs or alcohol is incomprehensible to me
- and on and on ...
I am completely separating the moral issue from the "trait". The moral issue is that the behavior is wrong, period. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter WHY one acts as they do, whatever the sin might be.
If I have a bad temper that "runs in the family", that doesn't make it okay to beat my wife and kids. It's something that I have to deal with / overcome that some others do not.