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DMFParadox -> RE: Is BDSM a choice or are we born this way? (12/21/2010 11:45:10 PM)
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The scope is too large, and the sample space too narrow to apply to this question.
From one standpoint, everything we do is something we're born to do. A lot of people tend to focus on questions of behavior as nature vs. nurture, and forget that the strongest factors affecting our lives - breathing, eating, sex and childbearing, two arms, two eyes, the ability to hear high C, see color, understand one another - all 'nature'. Making 'nurture' a small island in a very large ocean of personhood. Surrounded by and contained within.
From a different standpoint, everything we do is a choice. The factors informing those choices are so vast, and so omnipresent, that they are essentially meaningless; it's the small straws tipping the balance we focus on, because we have the sense that we can do something about the straw. Often, we're right about that. That too is a choice, one of perception.
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