165. Larsen E Whipsnade: That was really quite extraordinary. I’m deeply saddened that, for you, falling in love is a fantasy. I myself have fallen in love more than once, and am still in love with the woman (now my wife) I fell for eleven years ago. I’ve been smitten many more times than that, of course. It’s really never been terribly voluntary, but most importantly, to my, point, it’s always been women. I have never felt the same kind of happiness with a man, even a very good friend, that I’ve had in the company of a woman I’ve loved. I’ve never felt the same kind of longing for a man that I have for a woman. And I’ve never felt the heartache at the loss of a relationship–even with a good friend–that I have at the end of a relationship with a woman I loved (or heck, even liked a whole bunch).
You portray yourself as being exceedingly logical, immune to desire and making only rational, measured choices about life. I submit to you that a cursory examination of people pretty much anywhere in the world, at pretty much any point in time, would strongly indicate that most people are not like you. Most people have little if any choice about whom they’re attracted to and who they love.
However, I will not claim that I know your mind or heart, or the choices you’ve made, or whether they’ve been yours to make. Having no evidence to doubt your words, I will accept them as honest and true to the best of your own self-reflective knowledge.
You would do well to extend the same courtesy to others. Claiming that homosexuality is a choice, when basically everybody with first-hand experience says that it is not, is claiming that all of these people are liars. You are welcome to hold that opinion, but it reflects poorly upon you if you put it forward as fact without any supporting evidence.
