Posted: May 14, 2017 9:41 am
Keep It Real wrote:Matthew Shute wrote:Keep It Real wrote:This whole thread was started because of the criminalisation of homosexual activity in 72 countries. If somebody I knew was stuck with 20kg of heroin I'd try to help them dispose of it. I've got paranoid schizophrenia, but I don't feel bad about it, because I have effective treatment. If effective treatment exists for UHA it should be refined and encouraged....or they'll get fucking executed!!!
As Thommo points out, in that situation often the only realistic option for someone is to keep their sexuality hidden from prying eyes, and not draw attention to it by seeking pseudoscientific conversion therapies. Because in that latter case, they put themselves on the radar of the people who want (and have the legal power) to kill gays. And when the "treatment" fails, they will, as you point out, get fucking executed.
Not if they abstain from homosexual acts, which I would presume you'd recommend in countries where they carry the death penalty.
And again, abstaining from homosexual acts is not the same thing as not being homosexual anymore. Anyone can abstain for anything, if this anything is dangerous to them.