![]() This is not how things work in the real world, which by the way is the same as nature. Now let me tell you something: this all means shit. Several ant species “milk” aphids to drink the sweet secretions (honeydew) that they release. I myself, being a gay man, used, in the past, examples of other gay animals to explain that homosexuality is indeed natural. When a homophobe says that he or she is against homosexuality because it is not natural, their oppositors, people who defend the freedom of sexuality, quickly present them with evidences of homosexuality in other species. It is sometimes called “argumentum ad naturam” or “appeal to nature”, a fallacy that considers that something natural is always better than something unnatural. ![]() You can hear homophobes use it to condemn homosexuality, vegans to condemn the ingestion of meat, or even old people to lament the death of a child. This post may upset some people, perhaps people from very different backgrounds and very different points of view regarding society or human practices, but I feel that I have to discuss this subject that has been used as a way to justify or condemn some behaviors.Įverybody has already heard, and perhaps even uses, the argument of “this is not natural” as a justification to oppose something.
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