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View Poll Results: Is being gay a choice? | |||
Yes | 5 | 13.89% | |
No | 24 | 66.67% | |
Undecided | 7 | 19.44% | |
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02-27-2008, 03:20 PM | #101 | |
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FWIW, here's an anecdote for you. I've never been sexually attracted to a man, in the least. But I know that's just my own experience and my point doesn't depend on the straw man you are trying to refute anyway.
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02-27-2008, 03:22 PM | #102 |
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Is there another kind of poll? Can we get a temporary poll moratorium?
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I agree it's a complex subject, but I'm not even certain we've adequately defined "sexuality". But I believe you can overcome your inate tendencies, and warp them in many unusual directions, i.e., bestiality, pedophilia, et al. If we knew how to define it, we might some aspects of sexuality are learned. Do you learn how to turn on a mate? Do you learn what makes you more excited or not? Is it sexuality to do the laundry and wash before you seduce your mate?
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Irrelevant.
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02-27-2008, 03:25 PM | #105 |
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This is an event! Tex crying uncle, crying "no mas!" No way Roberto, the ref and even security are going to have to pull me off of your bloody pulp of a face.
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I would rather it be permanent. Agree that most polls are to make a point either directly or indirectly, but SU's purpose, as I think is borne out by his posts in this thread, is solely to disparage a position with which he disagrees.
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Gimme some of what Mike and SU are drinking this morning. I haven't seen this much babbling since the last Allen Iverson press conference.
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No it's not.
(Gee, following your lead, this type of argument is really easy)
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However, I suspect the predominance of facts affecting preference to be non-volitional, with this caveat. As much as I can remember, my own sexual preferences were heterosexual. But did I choose that based on environmental conditioning? I remember the normal reactions boys receive when they think about or see an undressed gal. You discuss with your buddies and they all brag. So it's socially re-inforced. One likes that and pursues the path and process. Was that a choice in following social conditioning? Is reacting in a socially acceptable manner to socially accepted conventions a choice or volitional?
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