(May 27, 2013 at 12:09 pm)dazzn Wrote: I don't get why it's wrong to cheat in relationships.I guess you could reduce this to biology, at least historically it took quite a big investment to get a child through to adulthood, so the task probably required both parents to be successful. At least for the man the biological investment in a pregnancy is pretty low, they could potentially have as many children as partners, so they have some incentive (evolutionary speaking) to just mate with as many partners as possible. I guess the incentive for women to cheat may be to have a genetically superior partner who wouldn't invest in the upbringing of her child and then have an unsuspecting inferior male specimen raise the child with her...
is it only people who see things in black and white terms who determine this?
However, since what matters in evolution is not the number of dead babies but the number of children making it to puberty, this creates a tension. One could argue that this selected people with some scruples to cheat but who nonetheless might consider it or act on it occasionally...
That's just what came to my mind, feel free to rip this apart if it makes no sense.
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