jerking off is gay
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youre touching your own dick to get yourself hard. that is gay. you lose
Legibility: Too many missing or incorrect punctuation marks, and missing capitalization.
Conduct: Pro forfeiture a round, and needlessly went into ad hominem attacks (insulting con's intellect for not agreeing with him).
Arguments:
Pro implies a syllogism of if you like to stroke dicks, you're a homosexual man; therefore those who stroke at least one, are homosexual men. This is very simplistic but a mildly entertaining bit of humor.
Con pulls a definition, and declares that you must be attracted to other people in order to be gay (which was not within the definition). Pro counters this with the act of stroking a dick is implying sexual attraction to it. Con insists you must be attracted to people plural. ... This continues back and forth, without any evolution.
Regarding the accusation of strawmanning I don't buy it. Pro repeated the same weak argument he had been making, without twisting anything about con's which is needed for the fallacy to occur. Pro defended that merely calling something a strawman is not in itself a sensible argument related to the resolution.
While pro could have done a much better job (for example, show monogamous people as still being sexually attracted to each other, to prove that attraction to one person can define sexual preferences), I understand his (weak) case.
Con likewise could have done much better (show that most people are classified as straight in spite jacking off, so even if doing a gay activity they are at most bi), with his case resting on a single definition which leaves it ambiguous along with calling pro's case a strawman of his own case.
Pros argument makes no sense
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"of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one's same sex".
It does not say 'Another person of same sex.'
It simply says 'people of one's same sex.'
If one is a person, and they show attraction to themselves, that surely qualifies.
Given:
- Masturbation is doing a sexual activity with oneself
- One is masturbating at their free will (They have an attraction to the act)
Therefore:
- Masturbation shows that one is sexually attracted to oneself.
- Masturbation is gay.
"of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one's same sex".
It does not say 'Another person of same sex.'
It simply says 'people of one's same sex.'
If one is a person, and they show attraction to themselves, that surely qualifies.
Given:
- Masturbation is doing a sexual activity with oneself
- One is masturbating at their free will (They have an attraction to the act)
Therefore:
- Masturbation shows that one is sexually attracted to oneself.
- Masturbation is gay.
Depends if you identify as male or female.