I had to check my phone to know what the date was. That's kind of sad.
I commented on a video on youtube and someone commented that what I said was irrational. I couldn't help but think, what is rational? Is it not a word created by humans that describes what we think is probable or logical and what isn't? Who are we to judge so? If a person is raised believing that unicorns are real and so is everyone else, they would not think it is irrational. They would probably think it would be irrational not to believe in unicorns. The same goes for any religion/science.
At a certain mental age, it appears, a person decides subconsciously that what they believe is how it is. Say a person was born and raised to believe that abortion is murder. At the age of ten they reach that mental age and there is no way that abortion is anything but cruel murder. It will be very difficult for them to believe otherwise and there is a very good chance that they will never change their mind. They reached that mental age at 10 for that subject. Let's say they also grew up to become a physicist. Eventually they become a teacher at a high school and after class, one of their star students comes up to them and says, "What if gravity isn't exactly a pull as everyone visualizes it? Einstein refers to gravity as a force. The scientific definition of a force is a push or a pull. What if gravity is a push and a pull. What if every force is a push and a pull? What if the only difference between a push and a pull is the way we visualize it?" The teacher dismisses this as foolish and ridiculous because when they went to school, gravity was a pull. That's the only way it can work. A push and a pull can't possibly be the same. That's ridiculous. After he firmly dismisses the idea by saying that what she said was ridiculous, she responds with, "But that's what people said when others thought the world was flat," and she leaves. It is very common for the scientific community to believe something so strongly that anything that goes against what they believe, even if it's not necessarily wrong, is obviously wrong and often ridiculed. This has put off and even prevented many important scientific breakthroughs. Why is this? People, on a very primitive and subconscious level, have a need to stay with what is known because what is known is safe. The unknown is dangerous. People's very survival instincts show that.
"...it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world." -Novinha from chapter 6 of Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.
My comment on the youtube video was about how homosexuality is a natural way to control the population without killing anyone. It's a much best way to go than pandemics or war in my opinion. It's a rational explanation whether you believe in evolution or creation. Not everything about living organisms has to be geared towards reproducing. It's geared towards taking care of the species. Population control prevents or at the very least puts off starvation from lack of food to support the population. I mean, the earth can only support so many living organisms.
