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People can make choices which ultimately lead to unhappiness. Remember the stories of the Great Depression, where those who lost everything jumped out of buildings, are you saying that they didn't make choices involving that? Of course, the fact somebody does or does not commit suicide does not aid us in understanding this phenomenon.
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The allusion that all choices and all circumstances have logical and reasonable explanations except the choice to be gay is totally untenable.
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but in another nutshell.... gays commit suicide over their homosexuality because they CANT change it, they were born that way. Stock brokers jumping off ledges are doing so not out of genetic disposition. If you took that same stock broker and handed him a bag of money, he would come off the ledge and be ok. There is no comparable "bag of money" you can hand a despondent gay person to get them off the ledge.
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Same-sex attraction is similar in this way, but it is not "equal" to anger or depression. How would someone even come up with such a metric?
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i will concede that it is a slightly mixed bag, but i believe that most gay people are born gay, just like most heterosexuals are born that way. however, there are some gay people who "act" heterosexual for whatever reason, and there are some heterosexual people who act gay for whatever reason. it's a mixed bag, but, in my opinion, these exceptions are rare.
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I think they are similar in the ways I have already outlined.
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