ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the debates that most saliently intersect with Ought Implies Can (OIC). OIC provides a particularly interesting case, since OIC-like arguments appear constantly in public discourse and commonsense thought. An alternative approach acknowledges that much commonsense thought and many public debates share the spirit of the abstract philosophical arguments. The chapter explores a few categories of localized determinism that are of particular philosophical and public interest. It aims to collect and even, to some extent, organize the different practical and commonsense upshots OIC is believed to have. The idea that homosexuality is a genetically determined trait has played a large role in the gay rights movement. The dialectic of the gay rights debate is a bit complicated. In order to deny equal rights to homosexual people, some have argued that homosexuality is a choice, that is, something avoidable.
