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Originally posted by Avatara:
We have plenty of time for antimatter - why not throw in the impossibility of changing the past while you're at it?
Regardless, even if you faced an exact copy of you continuously - that person is still not you, its a copy of you made by the universe. You're not having sex with yourself, you're having it with the other you. Likewise, the other you is having sex with you, not the other you. So, both of you have having sex with a copy of yourselves, but its still not yourself. Unless you're defining masturbation differently, I still say its homosexual activity. (believe it or not, I've made this a topic of debate at my school, we'll see where that goes)
And how do you define incest?
What makes you, well, you? Consider that no matter what qualities you could possibly come up with, the other you would have those qualities also or else you wouldn't be you. I'm defining mastrubation as giving one's self sexual pleasure without the assistance of anyone else, which, of course, is exactly what you would be doing. If giving sexual pleasure to yourself can be qualified as homosexual sex, then haven't we all engaged in some homosexual flings in the past? Are we all just a big pile of gay people? The same question goes for incest. If giving pleasure to one's self, based purely on the fact that you have the same genetic makeup as yourself, is incest, aren't we all a just a bunch of perverts?
Society gives us all of these generalized concepts and that we can use to group people with, are they valid? And now the big question, can this also be highlighting the dualism found in every human being between the mind and the body, along with looking at the self and its identity within society as a whole?
Whee!
-Pufer
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