Originally Posted by
rothaer
I'd feel uncomfortable if there would be the impression that this was an unrelated side blow and I admit that such an impression here easily can arise.
I actually consider it related because from my observations homosexuals are more prone to violating rules than are heterosexuals. It will not be connected to homosexuality per se but simply to the situation that someone anyhow is not in concordance with common basic views. So some kind of variation of the broken-windows theory.
Frederick the Great's unlawful attack on Austria (1741) in order to rob Silesia was a scandal throughout Germany's ruling circles. And when he much later got asked why he really did it - there had been presented a ridicolous pretext - he answered that he also wanted to be mentioned in the newspapers. Considering that a number of following wars were based on the Silesia robbery, among them even the Seven Year's War, which sometimes is also considered the first World War in history, this deed and attitude is remarkable.