tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post313257995753305395..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: 7-11-15 HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-85100441315177018272015-07-12T06:36:47.738-06:002015-07-12T06:36:47.738-06:00Jenn,
Not being on Facebook, I cannot comment on ...Jenn,<br /><br />Not being on Facebook, I cannot comment on that part of your post.<br /><br />Regarding the rest, I think that Pisaturo is at least being insensitive to non-heterosexuals. (Off the bat, a line about the obviousness of physical differences comes to mind.) I personally don't have a problem with an attempt to make a case that heterosexuality is the normal route of psychological development, but I do find assigning moral import to a non-straight sexual orientation naive at best, given how complicated human development is, and how young the science of psychology is.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-39775867224395105912015-07-12T01:40:03.379-06:002015-07-12T01:40:03.379-06:00The primary problems with Pisaturo's article a...The primary problems with Pisaturo's article are that:<br /><br />1. His epistemology is godawful--instead of using inductive reasoning based on a body of evidence, he's attempting to deduce how sexual orientation OUGHT to work from a statement regarding the function of emotions viz abstract ideas. <br /><br />2. He's trying to smuggle in the idea that there's something fundamentally better or at least "more natural" about being heterosexual. The title of his book offends me. Heterosexuality isn't a virtue. One does not gain or keep any values simply by being heterosexual any more than one gains and keeps values by being blonde. If one claims that heterosexuality is a virtue, then anyone who does not practice it is automatically failing of virtue--they are unvirtuous. To turn around and claim (as the author has, on Facebook) that he's not making any moral judgments of homosexuals is disingenuous at best. If it is one's conviction that heterosexuality is a virtue, then one must have the courage of one's convictions and declare anything that isn't heterosexual behavior to be a vice. This smacks of an effort to have one's cake and eat it, too.<br /><br />I'm not an expert on sexuality either, but I know bad epistemology and a lack of grasp of terminology when I see it. And I've watched way too many youngsters go through a long, painful process of coming to terms with their sexual orientation to be able to handle this kind of thing with equanimity. My tolerance for people trying to pass off a combination of quasi-Platonic rationalism and poetic maundering as reasoned thought ran out some time ago. Jennifer Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00039865566870992465noreply@blogger.com