Same sex marriage

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Egoism is a teleological theory of ethics that sets as its goal the benefit, pleasure, or greatest good of the oneself alone.

Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It is important to distinguish this from psychological egoism, the claim that people can only act in their own interest. Any act, no matter how altruistic it might seem, is actually motivated by some selfish desire of the agentEthical Egoism: The person thinks It is morally right to have "Same Sex marriage", because it is their own best interest.. so the person chooses to do what they think is right to do.

But in Psychological ethics: Same-Sex marriage is right because it claims that humans by nature are motivated only by self-interest. So no matter what is the action, it is motivated by some selfish desire of the person.

People choose to be gay/lesbian because they think they are born to be gay/lesbian and because this is their self interest.

In the same time it is immoral because it is against the nature of marriage. Because the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

Where in the other hand, Utilitarianism is, Greatest Happiness Principle: …actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.. so It is morally right be gay/lesbian because it produces the greatest pleasure.

Same sex marriage could be immoral because it is against God's will , and procreation is an essential element of marriage,.

Debates over terminologyProponents of same-sex marriage often...