Homophobia is a natural disease avoidance behavior. Therefore, homophobia is good for humans

Saying that something is " good" is an inherently normative statement" This is false. It's a positive statement being the fact that it could be proven with scientific evidence. An example is, since homophobia decreases the chances of a homophobic woman having sex with bisexual men, that would decrease the chances of the woman contracting deadly STDs since bisexual men are far more likely to be infected with a deadly STD. it could be scientifically proven that bisexual men have much higher rates of deadly STDs. There's absolutely nothing good about deadly STDs... Not only do they cause pain, suffering and sickness, they're also contagious and has the potential of causing millions to suffer. I demonstrated how homophobia is a defense behavior against these problems. Therefore, homophobia has been proven to be good for the human species on every level. "Even if Con won that homophobia has"somevalue for our species, we in the process renege on our moral duties to homosexual people by failing to respect their humanity and their inherent worth" I wouldn't go so far as to say homophobia reduces them to means to an end, but that it dehumanizes people, and that a moral theory which promotes what is "good" for humans while ignoring certain humans is inherently contradictory and flawed, treating homosexual people as less than ends" My opponents spewed two fallacies. Straw man and appealing to Pity My opponent spewed a straw man based on the extreme stereotyping of the term "homophobia". Since homophobia is rooted in disgust, how people express and cope with their disgust determines how they treat gays. Many people who are disgusted by homosexuality would never dehumanize gays. Better yet, there are over 300 million people in the USA. There are at least 100 million people at the minimum who are disgusted by homosexuality. A small fraction of 1% have committed hate crimes against gays and some of those probably involved gays who provoked the issue. Therefore, the vast majority of homophobes do not dehumanize gays in which is an indication that Homophobia is not the cause of dehumanizing gays. People who commit hate crimes against gays likely have other issues in play. "When discussing what is utile for humans, we must consider all humans. Just to be clear, homosexual people are still people" This is another straw man There are two parts of homosexuality. They are homosexual desire and homosexual behavior. The same thing goes for pedophilia. Homophobes are disgusted by the behavior, not the people. Better yet, gays are the ones who made their sexuality their identity. In many cases, gays have to tell us that they are gay in order for us to even know. That's like pedophiles telling a person that they are pedophiles. Gays promote their sexual private life simply by identifying as gay. Gays are people but their behavior is the problem. "As Pro mentions, there is a high rate of mental illness amongst the LGBT community, and this leads to rates of suicide far higher than the general populace. The tendency of homophobia to foster adversarial atmospheres and environments in which homosexual individuals feel unwelcomed and "otherized" leads to such outcomes" This is false. The most gay friendly nations in the world show that gays have high rates of mental disorders and suicide including Netherlands. this study shows homosexual mental issues are caused by the lifestyle itself https://www.lifesitenews.com... http://www.cdc.gov...... "When a large portion of humanity is treated as subhuman, denied rights in innumerable countries, and violently persecuted worldwide, humanity loses" You're appealing to pity. Again, humans have a problem with the behavior, not the people. A high health risk behavior is supposed to get treated as such. Pretending as if a high health risk behavior is not a high risk behavior just makes it worse. Gays intentionally let people know that they practice a high health risk. if someone goes around saying he has sex with animals, people will feel disgusted and may choose to not be around them. Rebuttal Gays have harmed themselves more than any homophobe. When HIV first struck the gay community, Gays were warned to stop having sex. when gays didn't listen, their behavior triggered an epidemic. Then they went crying to the government for help. It is not in human nature to sit back and let gays continuously trigger STD epidemics without doing anything about it. the condom strategy has failed over and over again. A strong offense requires a strong defense. Homophobia is triggered by a high health risk behavior called homosexuality and the issues that comes with it. Gays are usually persecuted in certain countries when they come out to embrace their high health risk behavior. Unlike race, gays can remain invisible amongst us but they would rather embrace a behavior that commonly triggers STD epidemics. it could be argued that a country is immoral for not downplaying a high health risk behavior Gays triggered the HIV epidemic in America and possibly in the other nations as well. Gays also triggered another syphilis epidemic after it was nearly eliminated.. HIV was not always around but STDs have always been around. The problem was, humans didn't know what they were. being the fact that gays have always had anal sex, STDs always more common among gays. Gays are persecuted when they come out to embrace a high health risk behavior. gays could live a harm free life if only they didn't try to embrace a highhealth risk behavior