Wait a moment, I'm confused. I thought the galactic government only enforced something like quarantine, something like Trek's Prime Directive. I didn't realize you also meant that primitive planets would be prevented from developing interstellar spaceflight as well.

Possibly.

Whatever the source, it does seem to be innate. I can't un-straight myself. Someone else can't un-gay or un-bi themselves. What I'm objecting to is there are people who think it's merely a matter of choice. It isn't.

I'm willing to seriously entertain number two.

Still waiting for robot cars.

Citations please.

Point taken.

Nonsense. Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice. It is innate. I can't un-straight myself. Other people can't un-gay or un-bi themselves. We are what we are.

I liked Pi.

I mean the latter. Yes, thanks for clearing this up.

Sure, but I think it's pretty clear on this: sexual orientation is not a matter of choice.

Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice. I've yet to see any evidence to convince me otherwise.

Consider me informed if not fully convinced. I've nothing more to add, let the last word be yours. Peace.

Just plain ol' scientific curiosity, nothing more, nothing less. It's true that there are lot of political, moral and social agendas trying to muddy the issue but, at the root, it's just curiosity about the way we are.

No worries!

Quack medicine is always a problem, no doubt.

I still disagree with that comparison. A person's sexual orientation and preferences are in no way as shallow as musical tastes. Musical tastes can very widely and very quickly over time. Sexual tastes can very somewhat, but I think there are limits. I think it's a very deep and hard to change thing—it's much more…

I think so.

"...but it's not necessarily any more due to hormone levels or brain shape than your taste in music or clothes is."

Well, obviously these nuts don't understand logic and they engage in huge amounts of doublethink. To have a rational discussion with them about sexual orientation or the sexual continuum is a fools errand from the start.