Holdover from Last Week

In response to Tyler's post "Shave Your Beard" (February 27, 2012):

It is true that pianists' playing on pianos does not deprive them of the use of their hands, except temporarily; but homosexuals' use of their reproductive organs does not deprive them of the ability to use those organs heterosexually.  They may not choose to do so, just as a pianist may choose to spend hours and hours every day playing on the piano, but at no point do they lose the option.

Also, it is true that as humans have discovered other ways to keep their faces warm, beards are no longer necessary.  However, humans are no longer having trouble in ensuring the survival of the species due to a lack of reproduction, or survival of offspring - if anything, we would be better off if fewer people had children, or if the same number of people had fewer children.  In this way, reproduction is no longer universally necessary either.  The only way in which homosexuality would pose a threat to the survival of humanity would be if everyone decided to engage exclusivly in homosexual relations - a highly unlikely eventuality.  Even then, though, we have now developed ways for people to reproduce without directly engaging in sexual relations at all (artifical insemination and so on).  Thus, a world composed completely of gay men and lesbians would still be able to produce children at the same rate as a world composed entirely of heterosexuals, and certainly at the same rate as a world composed of a mix of heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, pansexuals, and so on.