Thread:Comments:Gay couple elected prom king and queen in Maine's Sanford High School/Silly/reply (61)

Feeling good is presumably something our selfish genes have found (metaphorically speaking) is in their best interest.

It's very easy for things like homosexuality to not get weeded out of the gene pool by the mere fact that homosexuals themselves don't reproduce (to the extent that's even true). There are recessive genes, and there are interactions of genes. Considering how much homosexuality there is around, it seems likely that a certain percentage of homosexuality in the population is, in fact, in the best interests of our selfish genes. (Of course, it could simply be an evolutionarily tolerable side-effect of other things that are in the genes' best interest; that's not my first guess, though.)