(June 9, 2011 at 3:09 am)Rayaan Wrote: Certain activities do affect the brain, such as playing Tetris, for example. See this article.
As a parallel argument, it would be incorrect to say that all the Tetris addicts do not have a choice in playing Tetris just because their brains are like that. Rather, what happened is that the structure of their brains changed as a result of playing Tetris. In the same way, it's' also possible that the brains and/or the genes of homosexuals were changed or altered as a result of homosexual activity (although I didn't see any evidence for that).
So, along your line of reasoning, are some things which affect neural development and operation to be praised, whereas others are to be condemned, and if this is so, how do you arrive at the proper set of judgments? Please don't trot out a holy text, because that will just put you back in the rubbish bin. Since you are using science here (after a fashion), extend your reasoning, and show your rubric.
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