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I agree with you that it is silly to deny the health risks also. The health risks are the health risks and we should not cover them up because of the impact on a specific group. The fact that this issue is a political taboo speaks to how people are willing to alter or cover up data that doesn't suit their political agenda.
I would also agree with you that homosexuality is not a genetic thing, and that it is the behaviors themselves that are healthy or unhealthy. Within the scope of the behaviors one would also need to take into account the number of sex partners, the frequency of the behavior, and any measures taken to reduce risk. In just the same way that someone can drive drunk and not have an accident, someone could engage in high risk sexual behavior and not die from it or contract a disease. However, it would be misleading to say that you can engage in unsafe behaviors and there will never be any consequences.
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I would clarify that applicability of group statistics to the individual depends on how the group is defined and what statistic we are talking about. If the group is all alcoholics (say, loosely defined as people whose quality of life is measurably worse than if they did not drink at all), then it makes sense to say that anyone who belongs to this group has a problem with alcohol: that is how the people are grouped together in the first place. But if within the group the particular statistic is segmented, then this conclusion no longer holds.
To your last point, what is safe or unsafe is somewhat subjective. There are absolutely ways to have safe homosexual sex, but they require a bit more work than when it comes to heterosexual sex. With heterosexual sex, in most cases you do not have to worry about anything: just do what the mother nature encourages you to do, and care about your partner's well-being as much as your own - and you are golden. Of course, heterosexual couples may engage in different, less safe, forms of sex too, so it is not black and white. But there is no denial that, in general, homosexual sex done without any precautions is more dangerous than heterosexual sex - at least, when it comes to sex between males (for females, if I remember correctly, dangers may even be lower than for homosexual couples).
It is different with drunk driving: I do not see how one can do it safely. No matter what you do, unless you are in a safe-driving car (and there are no fully self-driving cars on the market today), your judgment will be severely impaired, and your motoric functions inhibited. I belong to the group of "good drunks" where I can generally function close to my full capacity even after many drinks (I rarely drink, but that is beside the point): I can do hard programming and math requiring intense concentration, I can do hours of running and hiking, I do not get hangovers despite being in my 30-s... Yet the two times I tried driving slightly tipsy, I was surprised that I did not hit anything. It is crazy how much your driving ability deteriorates when alcohol is in your system.
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Or may be and wow this only just crossed my mind. What about the health risks associated with being Hetero. Do you realize what heteros do ? And I know that this is a bit on the seedy side of things and not many people want to discuss it. But as you say we shouldnt hide the facts should we. But heteros actually engage in anal sex. Thats right. That is so totally disgusting and unhealthy. In fact more than half of the worlds population of hetero men do the chocolate speedway as a form of contraception. In fact it is the most common form of contraception. And if thats not bad enough hetero men also have p hole sex and spread even more diseases than homos. So we have to raise a wearness about the high health risks of doing straight sex. Its real alarming and totally disgusting if you ask me.
And since you raised the issue of me getting diseased by doing the animals I knock off every day. Dont worry because I'm imune since I had chicken pox when I was a kid.
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Exactly, AKA hasty generalization fallacy, as well as a mix of of that and lying with statistics. Also, if we truly do care about health issues with any given group of people then we should also try to make sure that we get stats and factual data correct and they align with up to date data.
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In any case, this debate seems to have gone down a rabit hole with reference to now talking specifically about gay black male.
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