to strangers. I've never quite understood why it was so important that homosexuality not be a choice. If you think that having sex with a member of your own sex is a bad thing, I can't see how it happens if you're predisposed genetically to do so or not; if you think that it's perfectly fine to do so, that again, it really doesn't matter why you desire to do so. Imagine that I like to go out on weekends to beat up people who don't belong to my race. Does it really matter to you if: - I do this because I make a deliberate choice to do so; - I do this because I was raised that way and am unable to shake off the psychological conditioning of my family; - I do this because I have a genetic condition in which primitive instincts that evolved so that cavemen would instinctively protect their tribe against genetic intrusion by outsiders are overstimulated, causing me to react violently against mixed-race couples If an act is wrong, the only real relevance of the "why" is that it tells us how morally culpable I am or how my condition might be treated -- if you beat up people for fun, but I do it because of a genetic disorder, that doesn't mean that your assaults should be stopped but mine are okay, it just means that the methods of rehabilitation that work on you won't work on me. If an act is