Reply #36: handedness is not fixed

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Many people have learned to use the other hand when their primary hand (or arm, really) was lost or injured. I believe both my father and I are naturally left-handed, and yet we were both made into a hybrid. He, because his mother did not approve of lefties, is right-handed in eating and writing, and is left-handed in sports, which he did outside, away from his mother's control. They tell me that I could not decide which hand to pick up the spoon with, so they held my left hand down and I used my right. I think any righty or any lefty could be MADE ambidextrous with training at an early age.

Myself, I do not remember choosing a sexual orientation, but I also cannot remember what early training I had encouraging me to make a particular choice.

You have not provided any evidence which proves your assertion that orientation is not a choice. In this regard I am reminded of food. When I say I do not like a particular food, like steak or beer for example, people hassle me. "You don't like steak? Or beer? :wtf:" As if I made a choice. Like I ate some steak and said "Wow, this is delicious. I love the taste and texture of this, but I'm not going to like it, just to be difficult, or morally pure."

Yet there are acquired tastes. Many people, I suspect, do not start out liking the taste of beer. They drink it though, because they wanna get buzzed, or drunk, and eventually the taste grows on them. Can any number of tastes not be acquired?