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by jfengel 849 days ago
Gay people beg to differ.

As do straight people. Most straight people, most of the time, take considerable pains to avoid reproduction.

Evolutionary psychology often proposes badly oversimplified models, and people draw invalid conclusions, even in non-human animals. But even more importantly, human conscious goals are categorically different from "every action is a selfish gene making a choice".