Re: Digest Number 806
"Wade T. Smith" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.culture.sf.delany |
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On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:04, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, 14 year olds can still make choices, even when they are horny > AND pressured. It is, however, difficult to define 'choice', even for responsible adults. (Are there any...?) With the proliferation of all things cultural, I doubt 'free will' most of the time. Memes are what they are. That being the complex thing it is, I didn't become partner sexually active until my early 20's, but I'd be lying if I said I was not a sexual being. I guess I believed in 'love', and still do, mostly, because when it happened, it happened. Would I have 'consented' if my latin teacher (whom I had a huge crush upon) came up and asked? Don't know, of course, she didn't, and there ain't no such thing as a time machine. The question is- 'whose choices are really being made?' I got no real clue. When does choice really become an option? What part of the self is self? - Wade == Posted to delany-list, hosted at onelist^Wegroups^Wyahoo == == A mailing list for the discussion of the works of Samuel R. Delany. == Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/