Is there always two options for things?
is it either yes or no… could it be found a third option. One night some friends and I were talking about homosexuality, is it a factor of some gene (including diseases, chromosomes, brain damage, errors, viruses, hormones which ever) or is it a choice (with choice it includes behavior, own decision, traumatic experience, role model, tired of the opposite sex, what ever of the sort). But I believe in none of the sort, I don’t think its genetic or behavioral. I mean not even twins are genetically exposed to a 100% that if one is gay the other must be gay and people might grown in the same house or have the same experiences and take things in different ways. Like if you have a car accident, some people see that as a second change in life and they live their life at their maximum other get scared of even driving. yes our genes predispose some things and yes our social life and experiences shape us in other ways. But homosexuality is like a kid who doesn’t like chocolate or prefer strawberry, its just how they are, its a matter of taste,(I am not talking about the choice betwen strawberry or chocolate, I am talking about the preference to one or the other. I don’t like chocolate ice cream, its not my choice and I don’t think its genetics either, I just don’t like it.) like a straight men who prefer blond or a girl who like them black.
So I wonder
Is it possible a third option?
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I don’t think that the ice cream flavor analogy is appropiate considering it would be saying that sexual orientation is a choice.
Giving options would be allowing choices, and sexual prefferences, in my opinion, ar not choices. Unless you’re bi and you have a prefference of one gender over the other, but I digress.
Is there a third option? I don’t think so. You’ll always revert to one of the previous two.
I can totally flesh this out into a post of my own.
I am not talking about the choice betwen vanilla or chocolate, I am talking about the preference to one or the other. I dont like chocolate icecream, its not my choice and I dont think its genetics either, I just dont like it.
You can choose between vainilla or chocolate, or even switch that prefference of one flavor over the from time to time. Not liking one can even be linked to genetic factors (food tastes different to everybody). The essence of what attracts you to one sex over the other doesn’t have the same mechanics of liking one ice cream flavor over another. Not to most people, anyway.
fine Ill accept is not a good choice for an example but I was aiming for people prefering blonds or brunnet… @_@
That is also a choice. lol
well I dont see those as choices but preferences… and they are not the same terms. Same goes for ice cream liking, its not the act of choosing between two flavors but prefering one over the other.
According to the dictionary:
pref·er·ence (prfr-ns, prfrns)
a. The selecting of someone or something over another or others.
b. The right or chance to so choose.
c. Someone or something so chosen.
See? It involves a conscious choice. I believe a sexual preference and a sexual orientation are different things. A sexual preference is a choice, a sexual orientation is not. Liking an ice cream flavor or a hair color is a preference, a choice. Therefore it’s still a bad analogy.
Yea but I am talking about psychology and its definition on preference and choice are diferent, by choice we can say its your definition on preference but by preference its not the act of choosing but of the continious selection of the same option. Not the same because preference its part of choosing but its not the act itself, but the constitution of the act and even though you choose with freewill your preference is something much more that what you chose.
I think homosexuality is a choice,whether people say they’re born with it or not. : |
If you ask me,it’s all in the head.
And i like your blog. : D
I am trying to see diferent views on the subject, but I need to have an explanation to the subject so Why do you think its a choice?