TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Thursday, June 03, 2004
mmm... sorry to be so rude as to interrupt this debate... but it has been found (though we all know that studies show correlation not causal relations) that genetics seems to set a predispositioned tendency towards sexuality. How so? Twins that are separated at birth tend to be either homosexual or heterosexual - not one and the other. It seems that if a person is genetically inclined towards a certain behavior, should we blame him for his actions or are his actions absolved from all responsibility? Or if one believes in moral responsiblity (and if homosexuality is 'wrong') and not in moral luck, does this mean that some people are inclined to be more sinful than others?

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