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Originally Posted by Craig
That's an interesting point, but I don't know if it's due to non-conformity or other social factors. It may simply be a case of individuals seeking an environment/peer group where they are more accepted. There are (apparently) plenty of gay flight attendants too, but that does not appear to be a particularly "creative" field.
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I do agree with you. Ben Franklin and Alan Turing spring to my mind as gay creative geniuses but whether or not homosexuality does induce a kind of nonconformist creativity in society is the issue I haven't thought about before, so it's exact mechanisms, if such a phenomena exists, are unknown to me.
So, what I'm really thinking is that if conformity is so essential in human education, yet we have become a species which has adapted to a variety of different environments which required divergence from previous practices, then there must be some biological mechanism which is a counterweight to the immense influence of conformity upon us. If it's not divergent sexuality, what is it?