Diaforetikos
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Thank you Mr. The Revolution for clearing up the adoption topic.
As for the rest...
As for the rest...
Anyone can choose. Plain and simple. You have a choice. Convincing yourself isn't easy but we do have a choice. Like if someone shot you in the leg. You choose how to react to it. You choose. You can scream, you can not say a word, you can cry. Your choice. Even nature itself can't overpower the ability of choice in humans. It can be a good thing or a bad thing.A guy I know isn't attracted to Asians. Another friend doesn't like white men, she's really only attracted to really tan or black/brown. A friend of mine only likes fat women, he's not attracted to almost anything else unless it has big butt, thighs, or breasts.
Someone else really only likes thin women. Like Paris Hilton looks fat, that's how thin the women he likes are - the wind on these women makes you afraid they'll snap in half - god how does he find them?! how many can exist?! - and yet another hates dark haired beauties. Another doesn't like black women. Another doesn't like short, tall, whatever. You name it.
Me, I'm almost rarely attracted to blondes. There's really only been 3 blondes that I know that I've ever thought were sexy. There have been women who dyed their hair, and it just kind of stopped being sexy.
That I can chose? I can wake up one morning and suddenly be attracted to blondes? My friend who likes the BBW can suddenly bang the chicks the anorexic dude was chasing, with full on attraction? Or is it, only gay people who can chose - but everything else is fine?
The idea behind that topic is that those people can try to reproduce. Homosexuals can try too but they have a zero percent chance of it happening. And I don't see how that could be a good thing. A chance at life is a good thing. We are all created to experience something that no other creature can experience. For you to say that its a good thing that some people don't have chances is horrible. Everyone deserves a chance.If you are a Catholic priest you can't reproduce, if you are a rapist and convicted you might be chemically castrated and can't reproduce, if you are a lonely geek you might never get laid or reproduce. Condoms stop people from reproducing. Birth control. The morning after pill. Abortion. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDs). There are thousands upon thousands of possible ways someone can be alive and never have the opportunity to reproduce, that doesn't make it wrong. It just makes it... well nothing, it just makes them not reproduce. Some people would look at that as a good thing.
I feel sorry for that women to have to go though that. But if she wanted to be relieved of the guilt, she can. Her choice. I do feel sorry for her though. I really do. No one should have to go through that. As for your stealing, there are laws and rules people have. You probably didn't think anything of the rules because it can't hurt anyone to steal. But when you did see how bad it hurt someone, you changed. You can't feel guilty about having sex. Only if you had a hard time coping with it before you did it. Then I could see you feeling bad. But again, you didn't know any better.I know a black woman, she's very old. She lives down the street and suffers from some weird disease so it's difficult to understand her, but she's gotta be in her 80's. White hair, tiny little hands all crinkled up. She feels ashamed only about two things. Getting old, and being black.
Does that mean being old and/or black is bad, simply because she feels bad about it? You don't feel bad about something unless you have a reaction. If I lived in a bubble where I could break things without ever once seeing a negative reaction do you honestly think I wouldn't break something?
No. She feels bad because she comes from a time, and she's from the deep south too. Beautiful accent. She feels bad because she comes from a time where she was treated like shit. Remember the 60's, the whole deal with the racial issues - guess what? They made her feel horrible. God gave her, in her own words, the challenge of being black - in her head it's the same as being physically handicapped. I laugh at times in a sardonic way when I catch the Boondocks, Red or whatever his name is reminds me of her in a sad way.
I used to steal. I still do honestly. But I used to be a little sonovabitch and stole everything I wanted. It was fine. I felt no guilt. And I was raised by religious people, but no bad reactions. Then I stole something and someone was very angry with me, and called me names and treated me differently and my 7 year old self felt very bad about that.
Sex? Never felt guilty or bad about having sex. Other people I know to this day feel guilty, some are frigging married and they feel guilty at times. Why? Something dirty and taboo? No. Just it was a negative reinforcement.
Give someone a negative reaction enough times, or even just a large enough one - get half the world to do it to - and they'll think drawing a picture is an evil deadly sin. They used a crayon, they're scum.