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Quote by: dilligras  Ah so, deska........but nonetheless, I don't think I ever used the words "gay culture" in my first post, but rather spoke of their lifestyle choices, in an attempt at a euphemism for anal sex, which is the only practice relating to gays that poses significant danger of infection. |
So it was just as I expected, my interpretation of your use of "lifestyle choices" was correct. What at first glance appears to be a critique of
certain choices (wildly promiscuous homosexual sex) turns out to be a totalising condemnation of any and all choices (homosexual sex in general). A "critique" of "lifestyle choices" made by a very specific group of "gay friends" is translated into a totalising condemnation of any choice involving the practice of homosexual sex under any social circumstance whatever. This part–whole confusion, in which specific instances of a type are used to give an air of authority to a categorical condemnation of the type itself, is a typical sleight of hand to get around inconsistencies of reasoning.
As long as you cannot prove that homosexual sex
per se is the cause of serious sexually transmitted deseases like AIDS, your gesticulation towards your alleged "friends" is pointless insofar as it pretends to be an argument against male homosexuality in general. If you were truly concerned about the personal choices made by your friends, you would focus your tirade on these particular risk behaviours and not try to use them as a despicable political weapon against homosexuality. As far as parade frivolity is concerned, men who attend Gay Pride do not represent gay men on the whole, and many gay men are repelled by the very thought of these events.