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**paratayoma** · 05-15-2009, 07:57 PM

True . . .

but if the biochemistry responsible for one's sexual orientation can also POSSIBLY determine one's liklihood of substance abuse, who is to say then that it's not heterosexuality that can increase such liklihood? After all, a significant number of heterosexuals happen to suffer from one form of substance abuse or another.

Sure, that's also a possibility, but there's no reason to believe it's the case until there is evidence that, ceteris paribus, heterosexuals are more likely than homosexuals to abuse a substance. As far as I know, nobody has suggested that there is.

05-15-2009, 07:57 PM	#18
paratayoma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	True . . . but if the biochemistry responsible for one's sexual orientation can also POSSIBLY determine one's liklihood of substance abuse, who is to say then that it's not heterosexuality that can increase such liklihood? After all, a significant number of heterosexuals happen to suffer from one form of substance abuse or another. Sure, that's also a possibility, but there's no reason to believe it's the case until there is evidence that, ceteris paribus, heterosexuals are more likely than homosexuals to abuse a substance. As far as I know, nobody has suggested that there is.
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