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Originally Posted by amber
If people "are going to think what they always thought anyway", and no one ever changes their mind, then society would have the same viewpoints as it did 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago. Our society's opinions have actually grown and changed very fast in this century, alone, regarding various types of human rights issues.
So, to say that studying something is useless and that everyone will think what they were going to think anyway is simply not true. Society's attitude towards gay people has changed remarkably just in the past 30 years. That didn't happen in a vacuum, it happened because of learning and the spread of information. Some studies and information are more compelling than others, but I would hardly call studies "useless". If no one ever looked for things, studied things, and shared the information, where would gay people be today? Or anyone?
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Societies views do not change, only cycle. Our technoligical toys change, but the human core does not. The acceptance of gays was much more accepted in ancient times during that cycle than now. The culture and ideas on the island of Lesbos, the Spartens, all had strong gay attributes. The Temples of pleasures in Rome are very close to places like Las Vegas. Temple of Aphrodite or Mandalay Bay. Different from one stand point, similar in the core.
Society never changes. It thinks it does by reiventing itself We will always have poor, homeless, greed, corruption aspects on one side, and music, art, literature, kindness on the other. Every aspect of history from wars to religion to thoughts on any given subject fall back to basic principles. The basic instinct to reproduce (Give your off spring greater chance to survive thereby continuing your genes) and the "look I was here" need. Or in more modern terms Money (control of resources) and Power (Survival).
It all cycles and repeats. over and over and over.