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This is wildly extreme in the nature vs nuture debate. What is your opinion of gay conversion therapy?




I'm telling you: I'm out of my depth here. I don't need opinion on gay conversion therapy though, it's been shown repeatedly to be completely ineffective (and extremely cruel too). What's your point?

Careful though, I'm not telling you that playing video games as a kid makes you autistic, I'm telling you that doing so can make an individual adopt behaviors previously thought to define/be exclusive to autism.


Well, behaving like an autist is obviously not good. If it is by nuture then we can prevent it by e.g. prohibiting video games for kids.

If it is by nature (being gay is generally accepted to be by nature) means that it cannot be changed by nuture.

The trans issue is currently the hot frontier of this debate.




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