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  1. Xref: sparky rec.scouting:2887 alt.discrimination:4171 chi.general:1014 alt.atheism:16701 alt.politics.homosexuality:5751
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  3. From: livesey@solntze.esd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
  4. Newsgroups: rec.scouting,alt.discrimination,chi.general,alt.atheism,alt.politics.homosexuality
  5. Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
  6. Message-ID: <pio27c8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
  7. Date: 8 Sep 92 00:55:42 GMT
  8. References: <hill.715545153@galena12> <1992Sep4.201833.17472@auto-trol.com> <AWERLING.92Sep7175340@dante.nmsu.edu> <1992Sep8.003336.26448@cs.yale.edu>
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  14. In article <1992Sep8.003336.26448@cs.yale.edu>, rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
  15. |> 
  16. |> To be honest, what you happen to think about the etiology of sexual
  17. |> preference is of approximately zero relevance to the truth about
  18. |> what controls sexual preference. People are notoriously bad judges
  19. |> of their own psychology.
  20.  
  21. Well, supposing that to be true, so what?   If people are bad
  22. judges of their own psychology, what qualifies you to judge 
  23. the psychology of others?   Nothing, would be my first guess.
  24.  
  25. So probably we would all be better off with you letting people 
  26. live the life they feel best with, so long as they don't harm 
  27. other people doing it.   
  28.  
  29. And if it's not the life you would lead, well, you said yourself 
  30. that you are not qualifed to judge your own psychology.
  31.  
  32. jon.
  33.