nijinsky's fetlocks
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Gelsons Dad said:SWP's back said:Bollocks. He chose no such thing. In the same way that you don't choose to need a drink or eat food.Gelsons Dad said:Whilst I have the utmost respect for Turning's work and contribution to computing, I have to say I agree with the lords on this. He chose to disregard the law and as such was prosecuted and convicted.
The specific law is not relevant to the discussion, only that it was law at the time and he knowingly chose to break it.
If you disagree with a law, campaign to change it. Don't just ignore it. Society evolves and so do it's laws but the principle must remain.
Many people have taken vows of chastity over the years. The idea that the need for sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual is akin to the need to eat and drink is just not true.
This isn't a debate about homosexuality. Nor is it akin to the Nazi's. It is simply a matter of not imposing todays moral standards retrospectively. And the appropriate way to challenge and change law. The latter most definitely not by ignoring those laws that don't suit you.
So you reckon gay people should just stop being gay?
Are you in any way related to Sepp Blatter?
Sexuality is not a matter of choice,but in your opinion Turing should have denied his sexuality to conform with a ludicrous law that should never have been enacted.
Sometimes bad laws have to be resisted.
The law Turing 'broke' was one which denied him equality with the rest of society.
I take it you have heard of the suffragettes?
Or apartheid?