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Originally Posted by sarofset
And why not?
Why does life, love or anything else we experience, being a chemical reaction make it any less amazing?
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For one such an approach is heavily guilty of reductionism. You are taking phenomena which is culturally defined, removing it from it's appropriate context and stripping it of it's meaning. The other problem is you presented a biological determinist understanding which oddly presupposes that people exist within social vacuums. Although perhaps it is just me, but I was under the impression that we are the results of dialectal relations between our social, cultural, biological and ecological forces.
As it is relevant to the angle you have been taking, here are two blog entries addressing hormonal determinism.
Part One
Part Two