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Honestly, I'll probably close my account after this. I don't trust the moderators to do a good job. The moment you start screaming about muh racism and conspiracy theories, you've lost me.

Dishonest as always, eh? Those first two statements aren't even accurate descriptions of my own beliefs. Also, very nice ad hominem attack on Jouvenel. Shows your true colors. I don't talk to dishonest actors. I'll be ignoring you from now on.

Somebody didn't read the OP. Why don't you circle back and try again? I never denied that there is such thing as same-sex attraction. Why don't you invent genders for every individual on Earth then? Why not invent orientations for every desire known to man? And better yet, make every single one...

Because plain language is inadequate? This is the purpose of technical language.

Indeed. This is something that Feser and other modern Thomists emphasize again and again.

An addendum to my post yesterday, an argument for hylemorphic dualism. Hylemorphism is true. So the human soul is the form of the body. (From 1) But the human soul engages in immaterial operations. Agere sequitur esse: whatever operates I-ly must be (exist) I-ly. So the human soul, qua...

But then, what is a sexual orientation then. The person who I presented isn't a "asexual" because, if sex was in the offing, they'd choose opposite-sex over same-sex every time. But they aren't "heterosexual" because their low sex drive means that there's not a stable attraction to any one sex...

:unsure: Again, why aren't you addressing this?

I showed how sexual orientation is an incoherent concept whether you define it as an identity or as a stable sexual attraction in the OP. You could at least acknowledge that argument.

They could be, but classifying homosexuality as an identity is basically making your preferences into the identity itself rather than simply a factor of it.

Missing the point, once again. I demonstrated in the OP why the labels don't make any sense. Also, if you are going to make desires identities because they impact your life, why not make an identity for every possible desire out there? We could classify people by what kind of food they eat in...

First, it's ambiguous whether or not Aristotle believed in the immortality of the soul, so it may not necessarily contradict Aristotle's position. Second, many professional philosophers such as Edward Feser and David S. Oderberg have argued that the immortality of the soul does not necessarily...

Run that by me again, chief? I addressed this point in the OP when I deconstructed the idea of sexual orientation. I'm not denying the feelings. I'm denying the label "homosexuality" for the reasons I gave. I find intelligent women with long hair sexy. Is this such an important aspect of...

Those people's subjective experiences are wrong because they are formed by a heavily propagandized social order. Human sexual preference is incredibly fluid, and there's no reason to believe that the nineteenth century taxonomy of "sexual orientation" (which, again, is based on junk science...

Oh boy. Yeah, everyone has a hot take on Plato, especially in the modern day. While I am not a Platonist myself, Aristotelianism and Thomism are indebted in large part to Platonism, and much of Plato's philosophy is painfully misunderstood. If you want a good book that debunks most of the...

"Gay" doesn't exist. It's literally a social construct.

Want to elaborate on that, chief?

Sexual orientation does not exist. It's a social construct. Allow me to explain. But first, what is a "sexual orientation"? Well, it has to do something with the stable object of one's sexual desires. Someone who is only ever sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex is said to have a...

I don't think the shareholders run a company. I think the managers are.

It's almost as if it's not really about the personal bottom line for these people so much as it is a moral crusade.