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Is Kan Kendega Peristo a True Objectivist?

Being gay or not is totally irrelevant to being an objectivist. Philosophy does not specialize in one particular type of tionship. It can give us broad principles applicable to all relationships, including sex. For instance, rape is wrong because force is wrong. Sadism is wrong in sex because you are getting pleasure out of inflicting pain. Promiscuity wrong because you don't really want the value from each women you sleep with. You just want another conquest. So it's self deception. If you accept the ideas of objectivism and integrate them into your character and life, you are an objectivist just like any one else, straight or gay.

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