genetic predisposition means that a certain trait or quality is predisposed by a person's genetics.
so, humans are predisposed to learn language, especially between a critical period that seems to end at some point around 10 years of age.
a child that never is exposed to language will never develop language, but the predisposition was still there. A child with a predisposition to ODD may never develop it, it does not mean the predisposition was never there.
not always a risk, not necessarily inherited, not only relevant for diseases or conditions.
There are likely very few homosexuals on the planet then, using your logic. Just bisexuals who at some point are with only the same sex. I disagree.
But you're saying a singular instance can define someone as bisexual. A man who has only ever been with women except for one homosexual instance would be "bisexual" according to you. The same for a man who's only ever been with men with the exception of one heterosexual instant. I disagree.
pretty hypocritical considering i was parodying your whole routine word for word. but thats ok if you need to tattle to feel better.
also i think one report is enough.
__________________ "Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage."
I take it a step further, though, and don't just stick to two poles on sexuality. I include other "dimensions" because some types of sexuality are not defined as "Finding the set of genetically prime women attractive" or "find the set of genetically prime men attractive". Sexuality is more than just those two definitions: even when injecting a sliding scale between the two poles.
Please tell me you're joking. It has everything to do with inheritance. There are things called genotypes and phenotypes. I think you are aware of this.
To your requote of the same thing you already posted:
"I like that 'combination of genetic and environmental factors' definition, the most."
I would never define, with just "predisposition" something that was actually a "genetic predisposition". Maybe I would if I had first defined "genetic predisposition" in the writing. But just calling it a "predisposition" is not accurate.
Errm.
No?
Nothing you said is following, logically.
This:
"A genetic predisposition is an inherited risk of developing a disease or condition."
Is in no way contradictory to this (a modified version of what you stated):
"Genes are not always a risk, not necessarily inherited, and not the only relevant element that determines diseases or conditions."
Please rephrase your point but actually make your point.
If 7 is perfect "straight", I would probably be a 6.9.
I can't say that I am perfectly straight because I cannot claim to know all facets of my sexuality: I have not experienced every circumstance possible to properly determine a perfect 7.
I am reading your point as "you cannot genetically inherit a genetic predisposition in some instances." That..........may be true of some known mutational problems? There's so much stuff involved with making absolute statements and I wish to avoid them.
Inheritance, as in, the genes you get from your father's sperm and mother's egg, is a common way that genetic predisposition occurs. Probably the most common. Therefore it is a mechanism of the phenomenon.
However, they are not the same thing. In theory [edit] inheritance is not really related to genetic predisposition, aside from the fact that it is a common mechanism that produces it. Sure, appealing to inheritance probably explains many of the predispositions we see, but that isn't the same as inheritance being a definitional quality of genetic predisposition.
Think of it like evolution. Genetics provide the mechanism for it, but they aren't really related in theory [edit]. The relation is one we ascribe because of the explanatory power, however, in theory, there is nothing that necessitates the two concepts being related to one another.
__________________ yes, a million times yes
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Jun 14th, 2012 09:50 PM
You are evil. Fortunately, I don't have sex, I'm married. 
