RE: Why emphasise on monogamy?
June 27, 2016 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 11:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 27, 2016 at 10:49 am)MysticKnight Wrote: The thing is right now we think in one way, because, cultural norms has given us a way to think. Right now you are saying it's about inheritance, but, given the future, what if people say, our kids can earn their own living without my inheritance, I won't sacrifice my sexual fantasies that I've been programmed biologically to have. What if society on a large part gravitates towards this as they become aware of the science and studies that show this is the natural state of humans?If cultural norms change then cultural norms change, but that won;t make our competing biological impulses go away any more than it has now.
Quote:Before we thought the natural state was monogamy, and that is how humans ought to be, and will be happier doing. Society didn't think about science or studies and what we are actually programmed biologically to want."Before we thought" is a generous way to describe what we did before.
Quote:If it's shown we lose sex drive often for one partner, and are searching out novelty, and we are programmed that way biologically, why resist our biological tendencies, why not form society based on our biological desires?We have formed such a society, how could we help it? We don't have any non-biological desires. Apparently, our desires are a wider subject than you're prepared to allow for. How about you, do you want many wives, or one? Personally, I can barely handle the one I've got. I don't need the added frustration of juggling women in my life. In this regard, it hardly matters what cultural norms are, or what I may be biologically programmed for. If the cultural norm was polygamy I;d still just have the one wife. If I'm programmed to promiscuity, I;m more effectively programmed to avoid difficulties and things that would tank the one female I;ve got locked down. More than either of these, why the hell would I downgrade from the wife I have - she's fuckin awesome, it's not like I settled...and I'm sitting here waiting for something better to show up.
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