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Slimebeast on 24 April 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
Slimebeast said:

A wikipedia article about psychology distancing itself from its  distorted past view on homosexuality was not a source for the point we were discussing (IMO psychology was a very twisted discipline until the past two decades or so). It was just a distraction.

Yes, I admit I feel a bit insulted by your general attitude. I don't think that's a good thing in discussion. I resort to an insulting tone sometimes myself but I strive for a respectable attitude rather than confrontational and ridiculing.

You didn't tore apart anything. You showed your bias towards one explanation model while dismissing the others without any grounds. You failed to see the political connection, and you failed to see the similarity to ADHD and autism when classifying whether something is a "brain disorder" or not.

It thoroughly debunked your claim.

ADHD and Autism ARE brain disorders, recognized by neuroscience and psychology. Homosexuality is actually debunked as a brain disorder by psychology and neuroscience has yet to resolve the issue.

I'm open to competing theories, but as you've failed to provide a single competent one I can only surmise there aren't any worth sharing.

I'd also like to clarify that epigenetics controls literally everything in conjunction with hormones, so citing the brain as the issue post hoc is a bit silly. The control units - epigenetics - would promote the formation of sexuality in the human brain. Certainly the brain plays a role in the process, but it isn't the cause. The initial domino is epigenetics, collapses onto the brain domino, which collapses onto sexual orientation. 

You seem unable to understand that, as far as we know, there is no fundamental difference between homosexuality and ADHD/Aspbergers on a biological level (you also seem confused about the brain's primary role in causing the end result and what implications that has or doesn't have).

You seem unable to understand the criteria of what constitutes a disorder in the medical field and how they're influenced by contemporary (arbitrary) politics.