Gay Conversion Therapy to be Banned

Of course I don't know! Why would say I don't know how I feel about this if I knew?

 

I didn't mean that in a rude way. I'm just saying, a lot of people here are making claims that "conversion therapy" is completely ridiculous and never helps anybody, and I'm just saying, nobody knows that. Also, I have an issue with the term "conversion therapy." At first glance, I would say I'm also against that, because I picture gay people strapped to some kind of electric chair that zaps them when they have gay thoughts or some crap. But that's not all that's being banned, and I think some of the things being banned are actually not harmful and might help some people.

 

I still go back to the argument that people are barking up the wrong tree by focusing on one thing in their life. Conversion therapy reeks of if only syndrome. If only I was rich/tall/young/white /upper class etc then I would be happy... It's a fallacy changing one thing about ourselves rarely makes us happy. Look at all those people addicted to plastic surgery. If people want to change they should go to a registered psychiatric practitioner and discuss their deeper issues not some cultish group.

 

That's really just one perspective though... just because somebody wants to change something about themselves doesnt mean they're obsessed with it, or that they think that will magically make everything else in their life perfect.

 

Ok, maybe you shouldn't have started your post like that because to me it came across as being rather condescending.

 

Well... sorry you misunderstood.