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- Felix
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There's actually a lot of evidence that indicates it can be epigenetic, a result of all the endogenous synthetic estrogens in our environment from plastics and other industrial pollutants.
"But the part I don't understand is how you equate behavior with identity so strongly."
Who is "you" in that sentence?
"I am a musician. Were I to move to a country where music is forbidden on religious grounds, I would be unhappy, but I would not be threatened existentially."
And if the punishment for being caught playing music was imprisonment or death, that wouldn't threaten you "existentially"?
- Sy Borg
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The "treatment" is ineffective and usually only causes damage. Homosexuality is apparently genetically based, but not necessarily inherited - if so, the human race would have disappeared long ago.mattfara50 wrote: ↑May 6th, 2018, 7:25 amIronically, I think this might propagate homosexuality. There is evidence that homosexuality is genetic, and therefore heritable. If homosexuals do not procreate, then their genes cease to propagate. By encouraging homosexuals to procreate, one increases the homosexual gene pool. Gay conversion therapy would, at least biologically speaking, do quite the opposite of what you claim.
I am also a musician but to equate playing music with one of the most basic and fundamental drives is not in proportion.
Could we please speak about something else? Truth be told, I detest this subject matter. I wish the poor blighters could be left to get on with it like others.mattfara50 wrote:Greta, I think we have improvised too liberally on an introductory post. Would you like to take this discussion into a new thread? What would you like to call it? And thank you very much for talking with me about this. Let me say that I think the LGBT community has suffered immensely, and I don't mean to discount that by questioning your beliefs. I could be utterly wrong about everything I believe in life generally, but the only way for me to find out is to argue my position until it is defeated.
Speaking as a celibate for, gosh, almost a decade (aside from a brief mistake with an Italian tour bus driver while holidaying in Europe in 2012 - but hey, I was on holidays), I have a far more clear view of sexuality and such rules of engagement than before. These people, variant through the way they are wired, just need to be left to live their lives like anyone else.
If you have more interesting positions, more related to broader aspects of reality than human rules of engagement, then I would be happy to engage.
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It is funny how things turn out at times. Your grandfather had the choice of dealing with external or internal needs, without a realistic choice of satisfying either. Then again, life is simply tough and people endure all manner of things, of which that is one.
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