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Article #1543Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
From: Travis Low
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 16:31
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 16:31
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In article <660405383@lear.cs.duke.edu> gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
=>In article <6091@crash.cts.com> rcf@pnet01.cts.com (Bob Forsythe) writes:
=>>Personally I'd find suggestions that my left-handedness was learned to be on
=>>par with suggestions that gays are made, not born.
=>
=>What difference does it make if gay are born this way,
=>or they are made this way, or they choose to be this way?
=>Why does it have any importance?
My, touchy, aren't we.
Here is my interpretation of Bob Forsythe's sentence:
"It is just as stupid to suggest that handedness is learned as
it is to suggest that sexual preferences are learned."
Or, if you prefer:
"It is just as stupid to suggest that handedness is learned as
it is to suggest that smiling is learned."
Now, the generic version:
"It is just as stupid to suggest that handedness is learned as
it is to suggest that {insert favorite innate behavior here}."
Finally, the short version:
"Suggesting that handedness is learned is dumb."
And to answer your last question, it doesn't make one rat's tit
worth of difference how gays come into being, and I don't think
Bob Forsythe indicated otherwise. Is it my imagination, or do
you loop around looking for things to be offended by?
--Travis
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