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step314

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Stephen is a 43 year old guy from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

I like to think very carefully about moral philosophy, and feel the problem is not that people in general are too puritanical or too carefree but rather than people tend to be careless or self-serving when it comes to discriminating between what is morally abhorrent and what is unselfish love. Rather than be sexually liberal, conservative, or a muddling compromise it is necessary to consider each behavior separately. Accordingly, my moral opinions are a mix of extreme puritanism, extreme liberalism, and a few middle positions, determined by my own thoughts and examined sensibilities. My training is in theoretical mathematics, but I feel my real skill is in moral philosophy, and have posted on the internet a book I wrote on the subject.

  • Stupid Evil Bastard: Twins Studies and Homosexualty

    Rated Jul 05 2007 • 1 review • genetics, homosexuality • stupidevilbastard.com

    Debunks poorly designed twin study purporting to demonstrate high heritability for homosexuality. I would add a stumble for the most interesting paper he links to directly, a paper by Bearman and Bruckner, but it is a pdf file. The paper, Opposite-sex twins and sexual attraction, describes the results of a study that suggests that in twin pairs (of same sex? not clear to me) of adolescents where at least one member reports same sex attraction, both twins report same sex attraction 6.7% of the time when the pair is monozygotic (identical twins) and 7.2% of the time when the pair is dizygotic (fraternal twins). For full siblings (not twins?), the corresponding concordance rate is 5.5%. The paper thus suggests rather conclusively that the genetic component to early same sex attraction is weak.