(October 6, 2010 at 5:17 pm)theVOID Wrote:

(October 6, 2010 at 9:15 am)Cerrone Wrote: As for the OP's "blog"... there is no seriously tangible meaning of right and wrong, it all depends on the rules laid out by the society you happen to be in at the time. And if a man was marooned on a desert island, he would make his own ideas about what is right and what is wrong...

I disagree, under desirism all moral statements can be factually true or false.

A man isolated on a desert island can still be judged in terms of the impact his actions have regarding promoting desires vs thwarting desires. If he is alone then his desires can't thwart any desires but his own, and he will always act in accordance with his more numerous and/or stronger desires, so he cannot act morally wrong.

It's still impossible to define a universal right and wrong within ideas of morality. It's true what you're saying with "desires", but that itself isn't morally stating right or wrongs, it's using a selfish impulse with is left unchecked by other means of comparison from other people and it's running free; in the case of the desert island dude.

Kant liked to talk about how ones own beliefs and personal thought should be the yardstick to measure the worth of themselves as a person, but it's made more sense to me to disregard Kant and focus more on "cause and effect"- even if a mans morally right behaviour (by the standards of his society) is deemed good, it doesnt mean he's a good person if his behaviour is having negative impacts anywhere else. So surely moral rights and wrongs, if they were to be rewritten, should be based entirely on cause and effect?

Such as I said yesterday with charity... or even with abstaining from rape and pillage

(October 5, 2010 at 8:59 pm)Dotard Wrote:

(October 5, 2010 at 6:12 pm)pacian Wrote: Rape? A woman is programmed to want to have sex with men who would increase her babies chances of survivability. Being rape destroys the woman's option to choose and thus decreases survivability for that child.

Whut? A woman has a child with a father whom she did not choose. How does that decrease the survivability of the child? Many women bare children from fathers they did not chose. They have no idea who the father is in some cases. Watch Jerry Springer, he showcases bitches like that. There is no decrease in the childrens survivability.

Quote:Even if a child wasn't produced and the woman lived with no decrease to survivability, rape has a negative connotation due to rape leading to murder, injury, and other factors that could decrease survivability.

Of the woman, true. But since you are basing "right" and "wrong" (in a objective stance it seems) on nothing more than survivability of the species, ponder this;

Rapist rapes 20 women. He has increased the survivability of his genetic material 20 times. He has potentially created 20 human beings. He has increased the survivability and increased potential procreation 20 times more than the man who did not.
Using your hypothesis about an objective "right/wrong" based on survivability, shouldn't rape be listed under 'Right'?

That is why this assertion

Quote: That is why raped is perceived as always wrong no matter the context.

is in error. I'm sure with a little thought you could come up with a context or two in which rape would not be perceived as "always wrong".

Okay, first, your first question? "A woman has a child with a father whom she did not choose. How does that decrease the survivability of the child? " A woman in general is programmed to be attracted to male’s that increases her child‘s survivability in the long run. Women choose the men who have the best traits to do this because their children are more likely to have the same traits and thus there kids are more likely to be more attractive to reproduce. If a man rapes a woman, the woman did not filter him to sleep with him. The man on his own, might have attractive qualities, but the fact that the woman didn’t choose him means he could also have bad qualities that would make their kids less likely to survive, maybe he’s ugly, maybe he has no social smarts, or no logical intelligence, maybe he has no charisma and can’t get laid from females. Those are traits their children could express and thus make the children less likely to survive, decreasing survivability.

Now your second question: “Rapist rapes 20 women. He has increased the survivability of his genetic material 20 times. He has potentially created 20 human beings. He has increased the survivability and increased potential procreation 20 times more than the man who did not. Using your hypothesis about an objective "right/wrong" based on survivability, shouldn't rape be listed under 'Right'?”

That could be the case, but it seems the survivability of the species is best suited when the male and females filter each other out to increase their offspring’s survivability. Lets say I have race horses. Some average or slow running horse that we will call Mr. Ed rapes 20 of the other female horses. His offspring are more likely to get his average yet slow genes. Okay but lets say we have an amazingly fast horse, we will call him Mr. Awesome… Mr. Awesome is naturally a chick magnet due to his desirable traits, he probably could can get laid by all the females, he has way more potential then the rapist, because Mr. Ed is limited by how many females he can get away with raping, which is way harder to do then Mr. Awesome’s limitation, which is how many females can he meet, because the females would be naturally attracted to him. Mr. Awesome offspring are also more likely to receive his awesome genes and when competing with Mr. Eds kids, they are more likely to reproduce more then a rapist who is limited by the number of horses he can rape. And lets face it Mr. Eds daughters won’t be able to rape the male horses as easily due to males being technically stronger. But Mr. Awesomes’ daughters will be able to sprint faster a trait considered better to their survival when being chased by predators. Another factor is Males are protective of females and males are even more protective of desirable females. Mr. Ed’s kids will have a harder time raping these females due to their protection, where as Mr. Awesomes is more likely to have these desirable females naturally because he himself is a diserable male. This all increasing his children’s survivability above than Mr. Ed’s offsping. Plus even if Mr. Ed is desirable then he would not need to rape because the woman would come to him. It is more likely Mr. Ed is a loser or mentally ill. Being mentally ill on average does not increase your survivability because you are probably lacking traits of charisma, social intellect, and other factors that would increase your ability to make friends, or girlfriends. Oh and yes making friends is a positive trait linked to increase survivability, just ask females why they are attracted to the popular guys in high school

Anyways on your third question you are right you could probably find a way to increase survivability while raping, but like I said it has a negative connotation and will be considered wrong almost always. And like I said nature seems to prefer the best traits to mix when male and females filter each other, respectively.

(October 7, 2010 at 12:59 am)pacian Wrote: [quote='Dotard' pid='97745' dateline='1286326794']
[quote='pacian' pid='97704' dateline='1286316728']
Okay, first, your first question? "A woman has a child with a father whom she did not choose. How does that decrease the survivability of the child? " A woman in general is programmed to be attracted to male’s that increases her child‘s survivability in the long run. Women choose the men who have the best traits to do this because their children are more likely to have the same traits and thus there kids are more likely to be more attractive to reproduce. If a man rapes a woman, the woman did not filter him to sleep with him. The man on his own, might have attractive qualities, but the fact that the woman didn’t choose him means he could also have bad qualities that would make their kids less likely to survive, maybe he’s ugly, maybe he has no social smarts, or no logical intelligence, maybe he has no charisma and can’t get laid from females. Those are traits their children could express and thus make the children less likely to survive, decreasing survivability.

I think you're putting too much faith in the behaviour of drunken whores on the dancefloor hahahah the consequence of you telling women this is that you may increase your chances or getting laid because you're creditting them with intelligence... but otherwise your conclusions are meritless.

Women do not filter out partners based on survival traits such as intelligence, strength or the ability to pick apples from a tree, they pick their partner based on physicial cuteness, money (which you could argue was security, and that'd be fairly accurate, but it borders on vanity also) and the idiocy of the man to let himself be controlled. And that is true for the most part.

(October 5, 2010 at 11:49 pm)theVOID Wrote:

(October 5, 2010 at 6:12 pm)pacian Wrote: I would like to apologize about my punctuation and grammar before I start. The following is from my blog:

No problem, now that it looks a bit nicer i might chime in

Quote:Okay, what is the meaning of right or wrong? From what I saw of Sam Harris it looks like he is close to getting it right, but I wasn't able to know if he understands it completely just based on the interview, and also on the fact I haven't read his book. I believe he describes it as human flourishing, where as I describe it as survivability. But its okay, its basically the same thing. What I mean is, and I think he does too, is that morality, the meaning of right and wrong, is based on whats good for humans.
Now, since we were young we were told what was right or wrong, by parents and religion, but I have always wanted a better definition. What is right and what is wrong? The only answers seemed to me to come from just knowing based on what I was taught. But it occurred to me, after, I figured out the meaning of life, that what it is ,in reality based on is survivability.

So you define (moral?) right and wrong as 'maximizing survivability'? In other words what ever best aids in survival is what is morally right?

Um, yes and no. Though this is what i feel nature tends to point too, I know morality isn't real its just created in our mind.

Quote: As, I will later articulate in future blogs, us humans evolved with randomness. This randomness pointed our perceived characters and morality towards the most logical conclusion.

Yeah, you're going to have to explain this one, because as it stands you appear to have made one of the biggest newbie mistakes regarding the theory of evolution...

Sorry dude, but randomness is the theory of evolution, or it should be written that way. Every thing happened out of randomness, molecules meshing together in a watery soup. Let say i make robots with the ability to reproduce... but also vary, much like our dna does with bacteria and every other living creature. Okay out of randomness some of these robots will kill their offspring, some will do nothing with their offspring, and others will provide for their offspring out of sheer randomness. Who is going to survive better? Evolution will make more of the robots that don't kill their offspring and probably even more of the robots that don't kill their offspring and provide for their offspring. Yes their will be more robots that take care of their offspring but because nature is random and these robots vary, just like our dna, there will be every now and then a robot born that kills his own offspring, due to randomness even though the majority of robots care for their offspring.

Quote: That conclusion is to make more of our selfs, to stay alive, reproduce, and continue being more.

That's not true, many out there are generally lazy and don't give a shit about self improvement, not enough to take action anyway.

Randomness, all they are is randomness, they can still survive, reproduce, but they might not have all the awesome traits that would make them super awesome. Its hard getting all the right traits!

Quote: In randomness we evolved to want to reproduce and stay alive, because if we hadn't we would not exist.

*sigh*

That seems to be the same mistake as earlier rising again.

I explained earlier.

Quote: We would kill ourselves, jump off cliffs without thinking and fail to provide to our offspring to continue to survive. Randomness thus slowly removes the people with less traits to survive, and replaces them with the people who survive better and reproduce more often.

Err, we don't top ourselves under natural selection, we are under pressure from the environment (including predators) around us. Those with the random features that make them more effective at surviving the pressures of the environment go on to reproduce and spread the beneficial gene. This process goes on for hundreds of trillions of different generations of different lineages, and almost everything that ever existed becomes extinct.

True randomness is a slow process and if you see the history of the earth, earth's quick changes to the environment is way faster then evolution at times. So species naturally become extinct sometimes.

Quote: It is then no wonder why our mind has evolved to include morality in the picture, morality increases our survivability. Think about it. What is considered right increases our survivability. What is considered wrong decreases our survivability.

Agreed, to an extent, though many many many many (i could add a few more 'man'y...) moral decision that we make have nothing at all to do with survival. I agree with you to the point that we evolved a capacity to make certain educated decisions about our environment, and were able to determine the actions that would help in surviving or hinder survival, but morality is much more than knowing what will and will not kill us.

For instance, in all likelihood the practice of keeping slaves is likely to increase the survivability of the community that keeps them. They build wealth more easily which makes them a fortune that can put many successive generations into a better position for surviving.

If survivability of ones lineage was the basis for morality it would be impossible call the act of keeping slaves morally wrong. Morality needs to be a far more comprehensive that stopping at survivability.

I feel that keeping slaves might help a family like you said, but those slaves are being limited of their full potential. The survival of the species increases if people are allowed to maximize their potential. Hell one of the slaves could be a genius and find a cure to something, who knows?, but because he was born to slavery and the species potential to find that cure faster has now decreased, decreasing survivability.

Quote: Let's say I steal from some one. Stealing decreases the victims value, their ability to survive because what I stole could be sold or used for food, or shelter or something else that could be essential to survivability. Stealing is considered wrong.

But what if you stole something that had no impact on their survivability? Since it doesn't relate to the criteria you set out it can't be deemed to be morally wrong.

Correct. You steal crap someone doesn't want, its not morally wrong. Lets say a person throws away stuff in a garbage can, the person himself throws it away because the object does not have value or significantly enough value to him. If a homeless man comes and steals it from his trash, does it matter? As long as the homeless guy ain't stealing credit card numbers, the survivability of the first guy goes unchanged.

Quote:But what if I give charity to a desperate homeless guy. I have increased his survivability and therefore have done something that is considered right. Same could be said if I kill someone, or save someones life.

Sure all these bits fit, but your moral theory doesn't work if something doesn't fit.

My theory fits buddy ?

Quote: How about studying, going to school, making more money, as opposed to not studying, not going to school, and thus making less money.

That's what many many people have done. Does this make them morally wrong?

It is considered wrong to be lazy and not become educated, yes, personally I don't give a shit, but thats what we humans in general consider and what nature points morality too. Come on your parents never put a guilt trip on you, to go to school, get good grades, as oppose to ditch school, smoke weed...lol

Quote:It seems right and wrong have evolved to be dependent on the perception of increasing or decreasing societies survivability.

I disagree that (moral) right and wrong arose from biological evolution. They are certainly memes that have their origin in some biologically derived sense of 'good' and 'bad' (in terms of survivability, pain, pleasure, reward etc) but they certainly go far beyond any notion of survival.

I respectfully disagree with you. moral right and wrong seem to have completely arisen from evolution, randomness.

Quote: For example if you steal from some one it is considered wrong, but what if you steal bread to survive. I remember my mother always telling me that God said that, that is okay. This is where you can argue for or against it. It is the gray area.

Stealing bread if you are absolutely dependent upon it to live is not morally wrong, i would say not because it is intrinsically based on survival, but because the desire to live is a stronger desire than the desire not to be stolen from, and this applies to essentially everyone, therefore it is more moral to be stolen from than it is to thwart the desire of the homeless man to live, because we all have more and stronger desires to live than to not be stolen from.

A moral person would make the action that promotes more and stronger desires than it thwarts, in this case because there are only two desires, your desire not to be stolen from and my desire not to die, my desire is a stronger desire that thwarts less desires (all my desires for life) than your desire not to be stolen from. Therefore the moral person would be permitted to steal the bread, and thus it is not immoral to steal to survive if you absolutely need to.

Though I find you equating desire with morality, I would have to disagree. My desire to rape you is equal to your desire not to get rape... so i'm morally right? Though your theory makes since in that situation you would have to elaborate on all situations

That is of course unless your theft causes someone else to die, and then you have thwarted all their desires in life as well as their desire not to be stolen from, and thus your decision to steal becomes the immoral one.

Hypothetically lets say my desire to kill you is equal to your desire not to die, so there is nothing wrong with killing you? You would have to elaborate cause I would have to disagree if its based on desire. We all have different desires.

Quote: You can argue weather it is wrong or right and weather it increases or decreases societies survivability. If the man lives and does not die because he choose to steals food, then his survivability increases and also that of society. But if he steals because of wants and not necessity then he decreases societies survivability, because even if he didn't steal he would still be able to survive.

I must point out that theft does not necessarily decrease survivability. If i steal all the pies from a fat man's kitchen and he has to run around searching for them for hours then i have increased his survivability

Lol it is still considered immoral to steal, even if he is fat lol. Due to stealing in general is stealing something that increases survivability or can be sold in increase survivability. Your right he probably don't need that pie and his survivability might increase if he lays off all that pie, but due to the negative connotation involved with it such as assault, injury, and death that occur when stealing from people. It as seen as something that decreases survivability in general, I mean your still going to jail for stealing, even if he's fat. And don't need it.

Your moral theory has serious problems.

My theory is awesome, I hope you will be able to understand it one day in all its glory.

Quote: In, reality there is no wrong or right answer

Then you haven't figured out what is right and wrong at all, you have become a moral subjectivist.

You know now that i think about it, morality is just another feeling of evolution to help us adapt, like depression, its just a series of chemical reactions in our brains, Its as real as any other feeling, happyness, love, sadness, anger all these feelings made to help us interact motivate us and do stuff to help us prosper in the world

Quote:as I describe later about the meaning of life, but in the world of morality in our minds you can argue for or against it based on the decrease or increase of survivability. Since it is hard to prove as a fact that societies total survivability value increased or decreased without stats to prove it, morality question like this become gray for people.

I'm sorry but i think you're well and truly dead in the water here. no amount of paddling now can get you to shore.

But the island you stand on is burning, you must see why the water is the most logical path, or not. I know my theory is good. Thanks for posting, I appreciate your input very much.

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(October 7, 2010 at 1:11 am)Cerrone Wrote:

(October 7, 2010 at 12:59 am)pacian Wrote: [quote='Dotard' pid='97745' dateline='1286326794']
[quote='pacian' pid='97704' dateline='1286316728']
Okay, first, your first question? "A woman has a child with a father whom she did not choose. How does that decrease the survivability of the child? " A woman in general is programmed to be attracted to male’s that increases her child‘s survivability in the long run. Women choose the men who have the best traits to do this because their children are more likely to have the same traits and thus there kids are more likely to be more attractive to reproduce. If a man rapes a woman, the woman did not filter him to sleep with him. The man on his own, might have attractive qualities, but the fact that the woman didn’t choose him means he could also have bad qualities that would make their kids less likely to survive, maybe he’s ugly, maybe he has no social smarts, or no logical intelligence, maybe he has no charisma and can’t get laid from females. Those are traits their children could express and thus make the children less likely to survive, decreasing survivability.

I think you're putting too much faith in the behaviour of drunken whores on the dancefloor hahahah the consequence of you telling women this is that you may increase your chances or getting laid because you're creditting them with intelligence... but otherwise your conclusions are meritless.

Women do not filter out partners based on survival traits such as intelligence, strength or the ability to pick apples from a tree, they pick their partner based on physicial cuteness, money (which you could argue was security, and that'd be fairly accurate, but it borders on vanity also) and the idiocy of the man to let himself be controlled. And that is true for the most part.

Lol drunken whores are chemically impaired but yes woman do pick guys who are cuter, athletic, because it represents health. Wealth, like you said, but also charisma, the ability to make friends, to be socially smart in human interactions, leadership qualities, and other positive personality traits. Also, their is Pre-selection, woman like men who other woman like. Status too, are you the carpenter, or are you the king?I'm sure im forgetting stuff, but a good book on female physcology will help better answer questions i'm trying to recall from memory. The more of these positive traits you have, the more attractive you are, the more females you can get, the better your chances of getting a equally desirable female.

(October 6, 2010 at 5:57 pm)padraic Wrote: Human beings are essentially self interested animals. Many if not all moral rules are related to individual and/or group survival as they are reciprocal.

As far as I'm concerned self-interest motivates all action by definition. I can only be interested in something for myself because if I'm interested in something for others' sake then that really can only possibly be because I desire it for them for myself. If I didn't find it desirable for myself to help them then I couldn't be desiring it by definition.

Survival isn't the same as self-interest at all. Not everyone wants to live and not everyone that wants to live considers it the number one priority. Me for example. There is definitely forms of torture out there that is so unbearable I would definitely rather die, certainly if it went on for long enough.

Quote:Non sequitor.The purpose of life is itself.

It's not a non-sequitur because people can only desire what they believe to be more pleasurable or less painful than there current situation. Suffering can't truly be desired because even a masochist who supposedly desires pain can only do so because he either gets pleasure from it or believes he does.

What do you mean "the purpose of life"? Objectively speaking there is no purpose of life. Life doesn't need a purpose to live because it's already living, it just lives. Subjectively speaking people have their different unique purposes and, like I explained above, that's not always about surviving.

Quote:The most powerful drives we have are to survive and reproduce.

Maybe so but not always. And in fact there is no bigger drive than the fact our drives themselves are without exception driving towards believed pleasure or away from believed pain. We can't desire what we personally consider unpleasant by definition.

Quote: Whether life is pleasant or horrible is irrelevant.

It's completely relevant. If life is unpleasant or horrible in the sense of considered undesirable then that shows that our desires themselves are more important for moral considerations than our survival. And that's obvious anyway because it's obvious that not everyone who's living wants to live. Our desires themselves can be the only thing important for our own (subjective) moral considerations because it's only possible for us to value what we subjectively value. And what other subjective values are there besides desires?

(October 6, 2010 at 8:01 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: As theVOID said, many of our most basic moral intuitions have nothing to do with survival. How does giving money to a charity for starving Africans increase our chances of survival? It doesn't. Africans can't return the favour. Survivability may be, and probably is, how our morality came to be, but it has nothing to do with our ethical views in most situations.

Its like this, think your the government and you want your society to prosper. You want most of your people to be educated and help society grow, the more people you have, the more likely one of these people will be a doctor, a scientist, or some other occupation that benefits society immensely. Not all people will have the patience to study or the IQ, but the more people there is the more your odds are of having the people with these intellectual traits. Now, in Africa he might now be able to realize his whole potential, as to say if he was in America, where basic human essentials are less of an issue, but as a human being he has potential. Like all human beings, plus who knows his DNA might have the genes to fight the next disease or whatever, its more likely that's true the more people on earth there is. It is true, evolution prefers a greater genetic cocktail, to play with, to help life survive and adapt to situations. Also like tavarish earlier said, it increases are bonds with other people, and as it has been proven having more friends is a trait that helps you survive. Plus all the stuff he or she said Plus add what padriac wrote," The concepts of compassion and charity have definite survival values.They mean we may survive when we have no food are,sick,injured or old."

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(October 6, 2010 at 5:57 pm)padraic Wrote:

(October 6, 2010 at 6:55 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Why the hell should survivability matter at all for morality?

Death is painless, life isn't. Morality is about reducing suffering and increasing pleasure as far as I'm concerned. The priority being on reducing suffering. It's only worth surviving if life is overall pleasurable for ourselves or others.

Human beings are essentially self interested animals. Many if not all moral rules are related to individual and/or group survival as they are reciprocal.

EG in our society:

Not killing and eating each other
Not raping
Not stealing others' property and food
Incest taboos
Not drunk driving
The concepts of compassion and charity have definite survival values.They mean we may survive when we have no food are,sick,injured or old.

Quote:If all life was absolutely torturous overall, surviving wouldn't be morally important.

Non sequitor.The purpose of life is itself. The most powerful drives we have are to survive and reproduce. Whether life is pleasant or horrible is irrelevant. Until only about two hundred years ago,life for most humans on the planet was " nasty,brutish and short"*. Still is for many millions.



* Thomas Hobbes; 'Leviathan'

Awesome post padraic

(October 7, 2010 at 12:59 am)pacian Wrote: but the fact that the woman didn’t choose him means he could also have bad qualities that would make their kids less likely to survive, maybe he’s ugly, maybe he has no social smarts, or no logical intelligence, maybe he has no charisma and can’t get laid from females. Those are traits their children could express and thus make the children less likely to survive, decreasing survivability.

What a load! Because the woman didn't chose him he may have bad traits.......decreasing survivability. Where did you pull that one out of? You insinuating women don't chose mates with bad traits? They don't choose mates straight out of prison, cronically unemployed or genetic defects? How on God's green earth would you know if there are any genetic defects or undesirable traits in an unchosen father?



I stopped reading right there. I could easily come up with some silly ancedotal example using a recently paroled, cronically unemployed chosen mate compared to a "slower running", cronically employed unchosen mate of small stature, in which the 'survivability' of the child is increased. The dude has the ways and means to provide shelter and financial support to the child and mother.

I'm sure both of us could come up with many ancedotes to support our contentions. Bottom line though, is;
Yes, many of our morals can be linked to survival of the species and propagation, but in no way is it absolute.

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(October 7, 2010 at 1:11 am)Cerrone Wrote: I think you're putting too much faith in the behaviour of drunken whores on the dancefloor hahahah the consequence of you telling women this is that you may increase your chances or getting laid because you're creditting them with intelligence... but otherwise your conclusions are meritless.

Women do not filter out partners based on survival traits such as intelligence, strength or the ability to pick apples from a tree, they pick their partner based on physicial cuteness, money (which you could argue was security, and that'd be fairly accurate, but it borders on vanity also) and the idiocy of the man to let himself be controlled.

OMG! I have a kindred spirit! Who'dathought?

I'd like to cordially invite you to join NO MA'AM. See link at bottom of post.

(October 7, 2010 at 8:08 am)Dotard Wrote:

(October 7, 2010 at 12:59 am)pacian Wrote: but the fact that the woman didn’t choose him means he could also have bad qualities that would make their kids less likely to survive, maybe he’s ugly, maybe he has no social smarts, or no logical intelligence, maybe he has no charisma and can’t get laid from females. Those are traits their children could express and thus make the children less likely to survive, decreasing survivability.

What a load! Because the woman didn't chose him he may have bad traits.......decreasing survivability. Where did you pull that one out of? You insinuating women don't chose mates with bad traits? They don't choose mates straight out of prison, cronically unemployed or genetic defects? How on God's green earth would you know if there are any genetic defects or undesirable traits in an unchosen father?



I stopped reading right there. I could easily come up with some silly ancedotal example using a recently paroled, cronically unemployed chosen mate compared to a "slower running", cronically employed unchosen mate of small stature, in which the 'survivability' of the child is increased. The dude has the ways and means to provide shelter and financial support to the child and mother.

I'm sure both of us could come up with many ancedotes to support our contentions. Bottom line though, is;
Yes, many of our morals can be linked to survival of the species and propagation, but in no way is it absolute.

No i am not saying woman don't choose mates with bad traits I'm just saying those woman would more then likely be attracted to males with good traits and would rather mate with these guys. If woman weren't selective then I guess any woman like a super model just spreads her legs for every guy, rich or poor, mentally retarded or a charming prince, sorry but the woman is selective of her mates, whether you agree with her choices doesn't matter, what she is attracted to is a product of her environment and her genes. I'm sorry if your the product of rape or something I don't mean to say your inferior or hurt your feelings. Cause it sounds like your fighting this simple concept pretty hard. Plus I already posted some of the factors, that woman are attracted to in men, if you think looks and money is all it takes, boy you are completely underestimating a females complexity in choosing her mates!

(October 7, 2010 at 1:48 am)pacian Wrote:

(October 7, 2010 at 1:11 am)Cerrone Wrote: I think you're putting too much faith in the behaviour of drunken whores on the dancefloor hahahah the consequence of you telling women this is that you may increase your chances or getting laid because you're creditting them with intelligence... but otherwise your conclusions are meritless.

Women do not filter out partners based on survival traits such as intelligence, strength or the ability to pick apples from a tree, they pick their partner based on physicial cuteness, money (which you could argue was security, and that'd be fairly accurate, but it borders on vanity also) and the idiocy of the man to let himself be controlled. And that is true for the most part.

Lol drunken whores are chemically impaired but yes woman do pick guys who are cuter, athletic, because it represents health. Wealth, like you said, but also charisma, the ability to make friends, to be socially smart in human interactions, leadership qualities, and other positive personality traits. Also, their is Pre-selection, woman like men who other woman like. Status too, are you the carpenter, or are you the king?I'm sure im forgetting stuff, but a good book on female physcology will help better answer questions i'm trying to recall from memory. The more of these positive traits you have, the more attractive you are, the more females you can get, the better your chances of getting a equally desirable female.

I don't think the "selection process" is at all useful in the sense of pairing of man and woman (and this is if you believe in enforced monogamy at all), you mentioned charisma, but without intelligence all charisma is is the ability to talk shit. Therefore women may end up with a very stupid man who has a way with words i.e "lying", and that's certianly no survival trait worth having.

But we as a culture seem to accept and socially encourage shit-talking and spinning lies because it's good business sense that'd serve you well in the exploitative world of capitalism... and that's true, you'll get no arguement from me there. But what's the consequence of this? Surely every generation parented by these kind of people just get stupider, vainer and more dishonest. Is that worth survival? The human race may endure, but it'll be repugnant, even more than it is today.

(October 7, 2010 at 8:08 am)Dotard Wrote: OMG! I have a kindred spirit! Who'dathought?

I'd like to cordially invite you to join NO MA'AM. See link at bottom of post.

Hahaha thanks for the invite!

Feminism is about as useful as Chauvanism, i've said this to feminists often enough, the real design of progress is surely gender equality, never placing one gender above the other -except in sexual positions.

(I'd post more responses if I had time, but I really just need to say this.)
feminism is supposed to be about equality. it has just got a bad rep from some outspoken assholes. I think there should be a different name for it now, because of that and it's not like their aren't certain expectations of men that shouldn't exist. or for instance only men have to sing up for selective services.

(I am not going to rant, now. sorry, I don't have time to post about the thread at the moment.)