(January 27, 2010 at 11:30 am)Synackaon Wrote: Biology defines us as much as we define ourselves for the most part.
For the most part yes... biology is originally the sole definition of our lives... but from there it becomes less and less definitive of who we are as our experiences contort 'us' in myriad ways through the rest of our life. It all depends on the initial person, and how much they have been contorted over the years, as to the extent biology defines us. In some cases... so many contortions have occurred that one encounters extreme difficulty seeing the original for the contortions. In other rarer cases... so few changes occur that one might have so much difficulty seeing any differences.
So while biology defines us greatly to begin with... it is our experiences that take the greater seat in defining us the longer we live
Evie Wrote:I consider male and female to be a biological thing. Identity is different. I think you can be male with a female identity and vice versa but that doesn't change the biological fact of which sex you are.And yet one's identity can be male or female.
What is 'biological fact' anyway? Simply one's genetics?
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