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animals commit cannabalism and dont know what civilisation is

Posted by: Lark on January 12, 19100 at 14:47:31:

In Reply to: I appreciate the honesty posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on January 11, 19100 at 11:02:19:


:Do you think they'd be hitting up in the park if they had somewhere else to go?

Now you see, they have venues, these venues are notorious so they're bound to know about them, so why do they behave like deviant bastards?

They should have a choice either go to their venues and stop being deviant or get driven underground again.

: SDF: Lark, go back to read my claim about "gay pride," especially that it wasn't really pride but rather a claim to be "not ashamed". Only heterosexists are claiming a "special status" -- marriage.

I disagree.

: SDF: Lark, go read Bruce Bagemihl's BIOLOGICAL EXUBERANCE. Then reflect upon your own status. Homosexual sexual behavior has been observed in dozens of families of animals, throughout the spectrum of chordates. Bagemihl's book is full of pictures of these animals "doing it" out in the open. And, when you read this book, concentrate especially upon Bagemihl's thesis about this behavior, his answer to this question of why do so many animals engage in homosexual behavior when it doesn't lead to babies:
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we propose the concept of Biological Exuberance, after the work of noted French author and philosopher Georges Bataille...According to his view, excess and exuberance are primary driving forces of biological systems, as much if not more so than scarcity (competition for resources) or functionality (the "usefulness" of a particular form or behavior). Bataille's fundamental observation is that all organisms are provided with more energy than they need to stay alive -- the source of this energy is, ultimately, the sun. This surplus of energy will first be used for the growth of the organism (or larger biological system), but when the system reaches its limits of growth, the excess energy must be spent, expressed in some other form, "used up," or otherwise destroyed. (Bataille 253)
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: Now reflect upon your own position. You are a member of the most exuberant and sexiest species of chordate inhabiting the planet. Unlike many species, for instance, your fellow females do not have to be "in heat" to be sexually interested. If the other chordates have no trouble with species-wide expressions of the various and sundry expressions of animal sexuality without regard for the "proper" role or "status" of any particular sex act, then what's your problem as a human? Are you using all of your sexual energy worrying about its proper use? I mean, by all means, use a condom, but beyond that?

I disagree, animals commit cannabalism and dont know what civilisation is so they can teach us a lot about good ways to live, cant they.


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