Can natural selection select for genes based on their utility at a group level?

[Valmy]

So now you aren't talking just about sexuality, but about human behavior in general?

Yep, my sister has pretty much had the exact same personality since birth.

Do you really want to paint with a broad brush and say that human behavior is largely driven by genetic factors?

It is not just genetic factors but yeah something like that.

[Neil]

It further factionalizes society, as well as increasing individualism.

I hate individualism

Understandable.  Individualism has gone so far that it has become unpleasant.  The question is how do we roll back individualism without rolling back the aspects of liberalism that have strengthened us.

[Josquius]

Does homosexuality work like that?

Its how it worked for my cousin.
Except he used protection of course.

[garbon]

Yep, my sister has pretty much had the exact same personality since birth.

Yay, one data point?

It is not just genetic factors but yeah something like that.

We can all believe different things.

[Valmy]

Yay, one data point?

I was using an example not doing a statistical analysis.

We can all believe different things.

Indeed...but I am right.

[Queequeg]

I know this is the stereotype everyone refers to, but I have absolutely no interest in having a relationship with an adolescent boy. I think most in our society feel the same way. However, there are societies where that has not been the case in the past, and presumably we share the same genetic makeup. Similarly, ideas about beauty have also changed quite a bit over the years.

I think this is the main reason the Dumb Right rails against homosexuality so much while ignoring fornication and adultery, stuff that from a biblical perspective is almost as bad or worse in the case of adultery. 

Cillian Murphy having an extremely hot three hour long sexual marathon with Gong Li while her husband is away doing business in Oman?  Hot.

Cilian Murphy having an extremely hot three hour long sexual marathon with Gong Li's husband?  Not so hot.  The action the vast majority of the populace has little or no predilection for under normal circumstances (that being gay sex) and view as repulsive is far easier to demonize and far more productive politically. 

[garbon]

I was using an example not doing a statistical analysis.

My sister has a very different personality from when she was a child.

Indeed...but I am right.

You should submit an academic paper about your sister.

[Eddie Teach]

I think this is the main reason the Dumb Right rails against homosexuality so much while ignoring fornication and adultery, stuff that from a biblical perspective is almost as bad or worse in the case of adultery. 

You think they ignore adultery? It's killed a fair number of GOP careers over the past few years.

[garbon]

Of course you do.  You self-identify as gay.

I don't like I'm in a faction because I self-identify as gay?

[Valmy]

You should submit an academic paper about your sister.

Nah I hate academia.

My sister has a very different personality from when she was a child.

I cannot confirm or deny this anomaly

I also think perhaps I expressed this a bit too dogmatically obviously there are differences between who she is as an adult than who she was as an infant but she is still the same person fundamentally.  I find it pretty remarkable actually.

[Queequeg]

It further factionalizes society, as well as increasing individualism.

I hate individualism

Why is it that gay intellectuals like Foucault or yourself (or, for that matter, pseudointellectuals like Grallon) enjoy railing against the thing that has brought them unprecedented acceptance and affluence? 

[Valmy]

Why is it that gay intellectuals like Foucault or yourself (or, for that matter, pseudointellectuals like Grallon) enjoy railing against the thing that has brought them unprecedented acceptance and affluence? 

Self loathing.

[Sheilbh]

Why is it that gay intellectuals like Foucault or yourself (or, for that matter, pseudointellectuals like Grallon) enjoy railing against the thing that has brought them unprecedented acceptance and affluence?

We were all exposed to Catholicism at an early age?

Understandable.  Individualism has gone so far that it has become unpleasant.  The question is how do we roll back individualism without rolling back the aspects of liberalism that have strengthened us.

I agree...

This is odd.

[derspiess]

I suppose I could choose to have sex with women, but it probably wouldn't be much fun for any involved, what with me not being attracted to them and all.

O RLY?

[garbon]

Generalities always beg for exceptions.