If you believe your skin color is the most important thing about you, you are wrong.
If you believe your nationality is the most important thing about you, you are wrong.
If you believe your gender is the most important thing about you, you are wrong.
If you believe your heterosexuality or homosexuality is the most important thing about you, you are wrong.
All of the above beliefs make as much sense as thinking that you are defined by your hair color, eye color, height, and so on.
Why? Because all of them were “decided” before you were born! You didn’t choose any of them.
An individual is defined by his or her choices. Those are the only things in his life that are up to him or her.
And, yet, people give a huge importance to skin color, gender, nationality and so on, as if one of those was their most important quality, their main reason to be proud. It probably gives a comfortable feeling of “belonging”… but belonging to what? It’s not even some group you chose to join! You didn’t decide, or do, anything.
Are all your deeds and your personality so small, so insignificant, that they’re eclipsed by the fact that you were born in a particular country instead of any of the others? Don’t you see how you are diminishing yourself, as an individual, by believing that the most important thing about you was randomly “decided”?
The facts that I’m male, white, Portuguese and heterosexual don’t define me. They’re all parts of what I am, but not the most important parts. I was born that way. What defines me is what I did afterwards. What I chose to do - either good or bad, right or wrong. My choices.
We’re all individuals, and we’re much more than our genes or our place or birth.
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As the Matrix 3 states, “Where others see coincidence, eye see choices.”
It makes one think about oneself, doesn’t it?
No refute here.
I disagree I must argue that you are also your genes. For if you had adhd or were a rabbit you would be completely different. And if I couldn’t stop having sex with children because the irresistible urge was built in does that make me a bad person, does that make me different? Your personal choices are much of what makes you “you” in human terms but in the objective universe you are your genes. To say that your skin colour is not you is also to say that a flea is only the decisions he makes and if he happens to make all the right ones then its closer to a human than a flea. However I do agree 100% with what you have said. Because since in genetic terms we are all so similar the difference of choice is all we really have to base people on.
haha I re read the thread and totally retract my statement.