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Originally Posted by Drury18
So because something is unpopular or unaccepted, that means there is no way you could choose to do it?
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When it comes to Homosexuality, abso-fataing-lutely. Unlike other controversial topics, Homosexuality has the ability to truly test the mettle of anyone. It's easy to sit on the fence and have an opinion, but a person's true character is brought out into the light once it is discovered that someone close to them is gay, whether family or friend. Despite the appearance of being accepted in today's society it still has the potential to destroy familial and friendship bonds. Why anyone would put themselves through that risk for the sake of choice is sheer stupidity. They put themselves through that risk because they have NO other choice, and they can't hide it forever. Better to be out with it and be true to oneself rather than live a lie.
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Life is all about choices.
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This sentence is incomplete. Life is all about choices
once you're aware of the life that you're dealt. If life were all about choices, I assure you I would never have chosen to live a life where I have to work to survive. I would have chosen to be born into wealth so vast that I would never have to work a day in my life.
I never chose to be born a white Canadian heterosexual male to a pair of loving, middle class parents with German and Russian roots, but thank the fates that I was. Though my life isn't a walk down Easy Street from cradle to grave, it could have been a lot worse.
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Some people are just less influenced by what others think to be able to make the choice to be homosexual or whatever else they need to be to be themselves.
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In this, you are correct to a point. For example, I don't give a toss what complete strangers think of me in public, because in my environment, the odds of me running into any complete stranger at any given time a second time before I die is so low, their opinion of me is inconsequential. On the other hand, I care about the opinions of those close to me because of our mutual bonds, and for them I am on my best behaviour. I engage in activities I never would normally engage in for their sake.
Now having said this, if I was to walk around Chinook mall with a T-shirt that displayed "Achievement unlocked: Left the house," I will get a number of different reactions: Most people wouldn't give a toss, while a small handful of people would either get a chuckle, scream aloud and ask where they can get a shirt like that, or call me an "Xbox (vulgar homosexual slang)." If I were to where a rainbow lapel on my shirt and cross paths with a bigot, any number of things could happen. If homosexuality were a choice, I would never adopt such a lifestyle for that reason alone. If Homosexuality is a hard-wired genetic trait -- which I believe it to be -- I accept this as a fact of life and it becomes something that I have to learn to deal with.