RE: Why emphasise on monogamy?
June 27, 2016 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 10:59 am by Mystic.)
(June 27, 2016 at 10:53 am)Irrational Wrote:(June 27, 2016 at 10:41 am)Socratic Meth Head Wrote: If you commit yourself to 1 person for life, you should honor that commitment.
Maybe monogamy arose because we are social creatures, other social animals are monogamous.
+ Raising a human kid is a lot harder compared to other species kids, so it benefits if both partners commit to sticking together for the kid's sake
Well, yeah. I'm not sure why there's this conviction that we're all programmed to be polygamous or whatever.
I don't personally believe we are, but all the supposed "studies" are showing this, and then there is the "evolutionary" theory details.
I'm saying if all these studies are right.....what keeps us away from shifting our monogamy mindset?
Obviously before we didn't have these studies and they weren't a factor in cultural norms.
And still today, most people are not informed about them, and have the classical understanding of what the natural state of human being is that is contrary to what these studies suggest.
Note: when I question the studies, i'm not questioning the Data, but the interpretation of the data.
