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To: thehumanlynx

When you're talking about involuntary behavior like attraction, you really cannot talk about anything close to a choice. You might want to talk about the influence of genes and environment. But if you're talking about behavior, that's a choice 100% of the time.


166 posted on 02/28/2007 7:09:18 AM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: LtdGovt; thehumanlynx
When you're talking about involuntary behavior like attraction, you really cannot talk about anything close to a choice.

There's something we can agree upon. Ex-gays will tell you the same thing. That is, they will tell you their same-sex attraction wasn't a choice because they were previously confused.

But if you're talking about behavior, that's a choice 100% of the time.

There's another point we can agree on.

I hope that's not the end of what we agree on.

168 posted on 02/28/2007 7:14:47 AM PST by scripter (Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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To: LtdGovt
Finally, we have something that you said and I like. talking about behavior, that's a choice 100% of the time. Attraction is molded by behavior, it is NOT set in stone and it is ever changing. Every little fetish in the world is nurtured by way of the active choices people make to develop said fetishes.

If you want to talk about involuntary behavior like breathing or pulling your hand away from a hot stove then you might want to talk about bodily systems. Who/what someone is attracted to is a direct result of what they have sensitized themselves to, thus it is their own doing and responsibility.

188 posted on 02/28/2007 2:44:59 PM PST by thehumanlynx (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke)
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