Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It
by tdba on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:17PM
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No one chooses their genes because to a very important extent you are your genes. There is no meaningful "you" that could have done the choosing.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It
by scatterhead on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:22PM
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The fact that it could not be otherwise doesn't make it incoherent to say that you didn't choose your genes.
What's the underlying point you're trying to get across? It doesn't seem like a productive thing to go on about.
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It
by cuteboy19 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:38PM
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That is not true. People may share genes but may not share identity
Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It
by tdba on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:56PM
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As I said, to a very important extent it is true. Identical twins have a lot more in common than any other two people, even close siblings, often even when they are separated at birth. This gets us into semantics about what "identity" is, but that is indeed the issue that I'm trying to raise anyway.
> Modern twin studies have concluded that almost all traits are partly influenced by genetic differences.