I understand most of us don't care about Reddit anymore, but I can't resist an opportunity to shine more light onto things that Reddit are trying to keep quiet.
I might have some details wrong, but here's the TL;DR:
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A moderator of r/ukpolitics linked to an article from the Spectator, which "contained a three-word mention, in passing, of a minor British public figure, expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party" (not knowing this was a Reddit admin)
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The moderator was permanently suspended for "doxxing"
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They later discovered that Reddit had hired this individual from the article, and therefore considered it doxxing.
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Turns out, if you mention this minor public figure (turned Reddit admin) anywhere on the site, you will get permanently banned.
... which isn't the bad part. The new Reddit admin (Aimee Challenor) allegedly:
- is married to a literal, self-admitted pedophile who writes sex stories about kids (tweet: https://i.imgur.com/j2GXHtW.jpg)
- hired her father as elections agent after he was charged for holding a 10 year old girl captive in his "torture den" where he electrocuted her while playing out his sadomasochistic fantasies ("subjected the child to a campaign of abuse which included tying her from a beam, whipping her and giving her electric shocks.")
- started off as just a volunteer moderator for child/teen-focused subreddits before becoming a Reddit employee
Reddit's banning anyone who mentions the new admins name. Many large subreddits are going private in protest of the admins. The admins just put out a statement clarifying the ban policy but no comment on why they hired (and still are employing) an allegedly avid supporter of child rapists. More subreddits are continuing to close. Could be interesting!
Except homosexual behavior also occurs in numerous species and, as you said, traits are only passed on by successful reproduction. So traits are either useful or are at the least don’t get in the way. Except this behavior has a continuous small percentage of the population (whatever that is), occurs in many species and has persisted for a long time.
There is something going on about it that we don’t understand.
Similarly, a trait in rabbits also does this for me; their heart explodes if they get too afraid so they don’t suffer when a predator gets them. How on earth does that get inherited as a trait so as to be a species thing? As in it somehow is a positive reproductive trait. Similarly humans and other animals have kill signals when we die so that the body rots faster. How does that get inherited?
Its possible that homosexuality is a result of a recurring genetic mutation, which causes it to continuously exist in a small minority of a population despite its evolutionary disadvantageousness, but its also possible that its just a multi-species response to trauma. Other species cited as exhibiting homosexual behavior are also often known for sexual and physical abuse (for example dolphins and monkeys).
Not every advantageous trait will be passed on and not every disadvantageous trait is culled. But, homosexuality is certainly not something being passed on from generation to generation because specimens carrying a "gay gene" are more suitable. Every single theory I've seen for why homosexuality is beneficial are actually behavioral explanations. For example, some people say homosexuality is a way for groups of animals to prevent excess fighting for mates. But, that's not a genetic advantage of an individual. Its a behavioral response whereby the group exhibiting that behavior is able to be more successful than a group consumed by fighting over women.
Ah, but it would be a benefit for the whole group though. And one theory I just read believes it might be triggered by a hormone or hormones by the mother during pregnancy, the odds greatly increasing the more babies she has. That has some merit, still I doubt we’ll get a firm answer anytime soon.
Something doesn’t have to be of benefit to be passed on, it just has to not totally prevent an individual from reproducing. Otherwise all insanity and malady would have vacated the human race.
In addition, choices or uncontrollable events have impacts for generations, sometimes through immediate genetic/biologic alterations (go look up stress trauma from war getting encoded and passed on in one generation), and sometimes through the micro-culture of the family, and even spiritually. Things like abuse or violence echo down - impacting survivors purely as a stress factor, and if triumphed over completely with a healthy moral life, the virtue of having overcome that harm benefits the generations. Worst is when the behavior is passed on/taught to the next generation.
A large amount of bad behavior, and a number of maladies are totally not beneficial for humans, but like viruses, tag along and get passed on. Sometimes they get so bad, no one is left to reproduce, and civilizations disappear in murder, disease, or depravity.