So you're a God and you are designing humans. This appears to be the thought process:
1. I need there to be a unfixed number of humans at any one time. They cannot just pop into existence. I also want there to be different humans at different times, rather than keep the same ones around forever.
2. Therefore they have to be destroyed, which I will call death. I will make it a pretty horrible process just because. I will also allow an arbitrary number of humans to be able to produce more humans. 2 seems like a good number.
3. Now how should these 2 humans be able to produce another human? How about I design it so that if they both really want another human, they could just wish for it? That way only pairs of humans who really want a child can have one. Afterall, it would be stupid for people who don't want children to have one.
3. Scrap that idea, I'll give them a powerful internal drive to do a process which involves them rubbing on each other. This process will give them great pleasure but also produce a child. This is the best possible design, and won't ever result in people who don't want children having them. Also I'll make a few of the humans faulty, so that some couples can't have the children they want.
4. To make up for all my poor design, I will make rules that they cannot rub on each other unless they first get someone to do the administration and get them to both sign a piece of paper, which allows them to have sex, but is mainly concerned with family assets.
5. I'll make the process of producing a new human particularly painful, again because I can (and I hate women). I'll also make sure they take years to reach adulthood, again for no good reason. Quite a few will die before this, again because I like to see a bit of suffering.
6. Since I had to introduce the concept of death earlier on and this is a bit mean, people that die will actually live on forever. I could have not bothered with steps 1-5 at all, but by this point it should be clear I've no idea what I'm doing.
7. Some of these humans didn't get the piece of paper signed before they rubbed themselves on each other. I will torture them forever, else my brilliant design just looks stupid. Despite this they all seem to ignore this rule but pretend to each other they haven't.
8. Some of these humans have also discovered that they can rub themselves for pleasure. How dare they. Eternal torture for them too.
1. I need there to be a unfixed number of humans at any one time. They cannot just pop into existence. I also want there to be different humans at different times, rather than keep the same ones around forever.
2. Therefore they have to be destroyed, which I will call death. I will make it a pretty horrible process just because. I will also allow an arbitrary number of humans to be able to produce more humans. 2 seems like a good number.
3. Now how should these 2 humans be able to produce another human? How about I design it so that if they both really want another human, they could just wish for it? That way only pairs of humans who really want a child can have one. Afterall, it would be stupid for people who don't want children to have one.
3. Scrap that idea, I'll give them a powerful internal drive to do a process which involves them rubbing on each other. This process will give them great pleasure but also produce a child. This is the best possible design, and won't ever result in people who don't want children having them. Also I'll make a few of the humans faulty, so that some couples can't have the children they want.
4. To make up for all my poor design, I will make rules that they cannot rub on each other unless they first get someone to do the administration and get them to both sign a piece of paper, which allows them to have sex, but is mainly concerned with family assets.
5. I'll make the process of producing a new human particularly painful, again because I can (and I hate women). I'll also make sure they take years to reach adulthood, again for no good reason. Quite a few will die before this, again because I like to see a bit of suffering.
6. Since I had to introduce the concept of death earlier on and this is a bit mean, people that die will actually live on forever. I could have not bothered with steps 1-5 at all, but by this point it should be clear I've no idea what I'm doing.
7. Some of these humans didn't get the piece of paper signed before they rubbed themselves on each other. I will torture them forever, else my brilliant design just looks stupid. Despite this they all seem to ignore this rule but pretend to each other they haven't.
8. Some of these humans have also discovered that they can rub themselves for pleasure. How dare they. Eternal torture for them too.
