So, how would you explain my best friend liking guys since he was 4 years old, with a common hetero patriarchal family - and I being straight, with the exact same family pattern?
You should listen to them more. They like the other gender. They don't have any trouble, social, mental disease. They weren't influenced by their environment. Those are lame excuses that we put because of our lack of capacity to comprehend somebody different to us.
Dude, the difference is simple. Suppose you're gay. You have a couple and you both like each other. That does not happen with a goddamn rapist of children or pedophiles. These people take advantage of kids that aren't grown up enough to raise a voice against what they don't want. That is why nobody would have a problem with the eradication of pedophilia from the world. But who are LGBTQ annoying, more than people who don't respect freedom and liberty?
Look bro, you never know what’s on other person’s mind whether it’s your best friend or it’s your parents and siblings. Sometimes people can’t even understand and describe their own feelings. And how did your best friend remember that at the age of 4 he was interested in boys? I don’t even remember anything else than few events related to my childhood games.
You were not with your best friend 24/7, he probably is justifying his interest with false arguments because still the society has not reached the level where people have stopped judging people based on their sex orientation.
I tell you why I’m interested in females, I remember at young age(I can’t remember exact age but definitely not 4 years old) I used to watched TV & both male and female actors were there from both of them my young brain chose female actor to like, at that moment I figured out I’m interested in female although I didn’t know anything about sex romance etc but still the female attracted my brain and obviously my brain had sex hormones.
I’m sure if I was exposed to gay based relationship movies or cartoons I would definitely be a gay today.
When given option between male and female a human naturally prefers the opposite gender.
And being straight, with the exact same family pattern you are still not a gay is because you were most probably not exposed to what your best friend was.
And coming to your second point about pedophiles, yes there is a consent between two men to become gays and have relationship but do you know how easy it is to convince a kid for doing anything? Terrorists train kids who later become horrible kills don’t you think convincing kids for sex wouldn’t be easy? Ofc it’s easy and I have seen examples of that with my eyes, I swear I know many motherfuckers who convinced children for sex and I see those children spending more time with those dickheads than their family and I’m sure when they reach adultery they will also become pedophiles.