In Australia, I think, it's actually legal to be able to marry that is your 5th cousin onwards. but I'm not too sure with that.
Fifth?!?! 'fraid not, in Australia (and most Western countries) it's legal to marry your
first cousin.
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Does that line work, then?
Not sure, I recommend you try it to find out. I also recommend taping her reaction and posting it here.
1) I dissagree on the desensitive issue on some degree, there is still the ability to realise the difference between fiction and reality that can not be crossed. I see people get killed everyday on TV, I havent killed anyone yet.
The distinction between watching and doing isn't as strong as you may first think. Observational learning is very much a part of how we, as humans, learn. I highly recommend that you read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_Doll_experiment for a classic experiment that demonstrated this. Fortunately, there are more forms of learning telling people that killing is wrong than there are telling us that it is right. However, even if watching somebody being tortured doesn't make you want to go out and torture somebody yourself it
does have a desensitising effect. Watch one torture scene and you're horrified, a thousand and you might start shrugging your shoulders. Potentially this will make you less inclined to strongly support legislation making torture illegal. I hope you see where I'm going here, because this is a subject that there are thousands of thesis written on, it's such a complex topic...
2) I still feel that on some crimes punishment only inhibits any sort of reform, its fear not rehabilitation that has the limited success(if any) and I feel it does more harm in general then actually have any accomplishments. See habitual offenders.
The purpose of prison isn't to cure the offender, it's to protect society and punish the offender. I agree that rehabilitation is important, but it should be done
inside prisons, not instead of.
3) My Iraq war spiel was mostly (attempting) to get the point across of the effects of our actions providing lessons that incarceration doesnt teach, maybe even cancel out.
But it does keep terrorists out of Iraq and Afghanistan, hence my point about protecting society. But let's not get into a war debate here, you'd probably find we don't really disagree about much there anyway.
4) I didnt mean you trying to deny their existance, I was refering to the very loud christians who try to keep things in the dark instead of in the light where everything should be
I agree that this is wrong. But it's no worse than the gay and lesbian movements that make it politically incorrect to criticise homosexuality.
I agree that homosexuality is not a conscience choice,however it appears to be a natural process that occurs throughout life. While I feel it needs to be educated on the health risks, I do not believe its something that "needs" to be cured. It will be very difficult to deprogram regardless.
Watching "The History of Sex" the Mayans had a great point(did not touch on homosexuality that I can remember-Homosexuality has been around since the ages and was acceptable in certain Eastern cultures) The Mayans believed that Sex in essence was good, the problem arose when the amount of partners became excessive showing a lack of control. This lack of control was considered a weakness, and would be punished by the gods through decease(among other godly acts)
I believe that all sex is good, aslong as the participents do it for the right reasons while maintaining self control. Lust and Attachment should not be the motives.
I believe it could be "cured", though I believe better education is the proper course of action. I do not feel it Needs to be "cured"
Well technically nothing
has to be cured. We don't 'need' to cure schizophrenics either, but it's the right thing to do anyway. I've proven that homosexuality is a mental illness and you've agreed, we are morally obligated to help these people as best we can. There are a plethora of diseases and cancers etc caused by sodomy so it's not like it isn't hurting anybody.
I do not support any persecuting laws on any subject.
Neither do I. As I've stated, I'm in no way against homosexuals. My opposition is solely to homosexuality.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?