7/26/2006: Hindu ritual sacrifice

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

My guess is that homosexuality is a built-in behavior to regulate human culture in its early tribal societies.

An interesting theory. How does this extend to homosexual behavior in creatures that have no such structured living?

Originally Posted by Undertoad

If a culture overencourages homosexuality it may die off completely. There are examples of cultures who did such things!

Care to cite an example? I'd never heard or read about these instances.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Cultures often make such mistakes and my own culture is totally laden with massive mistakes, some of which I can't see because I am in it.

No doubt. You want to talk about culture and diet? While you might think the encouragement of vegetarianism in some cultures is "faulty" and will lead to their downfall, I think you need to look no further than to see decades of shunning it in this country and supporting the consumption of the foods we eat isn't exactly doing us a lot of good, either. Anthropologists have examined this and most agree that people in the US are eating themselves to death thanks to the values we underline and enforce. Everyone here is eating perfectly well. Would you consider this faulty?