Wacka Wacka
I think maybe what I was saying earlier (god, last night and its that far back already? I really don't pay enough attention to the hangout) was a little mis-construed.
What I was saying was that some homosexuals maintain they were born the way they are. They didn't have a choice in choosing their sexual preference. But, then I was saying that if thats the case, then does this mean we don't have a choice in how we choose what kind of car we want? What brand of coffee to buy? Is our life pre-determined by the genes we were given?
That when I threw the Calvinist remark in there (you know, our lives are pre-determined and such).
But if thats the case, then is it acceptable that a person born with the genes to become a dictator, actually be a dictator? If we aren't responsible for what we've become, then how do we decide whats right and wrong? Where do we draw the lines? No, I'm not making an homophobic rant, I'm just speaking my mind on this whole "your born with gene A, so you'll be what gene A makes you" idea. I always believed that we had a choice when it came to our lives. Not in all things (someone who's taste buds tell him to dislike onions for example), but in our choices regarding how we treat ourselves, others, and how we select the life we want to lead. That we'd be what we decided ourselves to be, not some micro-scopic protein or some higher power writing a plan for us (even when I was certain their was a god I didn't believe he sat up there or wherever writing down a book with my or anyone's life in it).
But, there is an idea going around that we aren't what we make of ourselves, we are what our parents DNA makes us. Its like someone took the nature vs. nuture debate a step farther.
