Definition of "unchosen" [unchosen]

• Not chosen (adjective)

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• "The dispute is over the significance of the fact that homosexuality is unchosen."
• "Thus there was nothing unreasonable about taking what you said about unchosen conditions as a categorical statement."
• "For instance, the smallpox example was used only to illustrate the point that even unchosen characteristics will sometimes call for differential treatment (this point being relevant to the debate over homosexuality, in particular your suggestion that it is “fundamentally unjust to penalize or discriminate against anybody on the basis of something that person has no choice over”)."