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that's like saying the only reason people aren't impervious to bullets is because governments wish to use guns to kill people.

there will always be something taboo in society to blackmail people with.



I think that's a horrible analogy.

And yes, there always will, but I think that homosexuality as a taboo has been exploited, specifically.


The analogy is pointing out that homosexuality is not a taboo because it's been exploited, it's being exploited because it's a taboo.

Your original statement seemed to suggest that it is still a taboo because those who wish to exploit it want it that way. The cause is not power brokers, it's everyone (or enough of everyone) who makes taboos' shamefulness persist.


I took issue with comparing psychological/social warfare to physical bullets...

I felt that while both can be weapons, there is a concrete, perhaps subtle difference between the two.


As subtle as concrete




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