Re: Re: Clearly not the point.
Originally posted by whobdamandog
You forgot to add..[list]
[*] Some animals eat crap.
[*] Some animals play with their crap.
[*] Some animals rub their asses against trees, then eat the crap on the tree.
[*] Some animals like to lick the behinds of other animals and hump trees, and then eat the crap off the trees.
[/list]So anyway..this all explains why one can't control sticking their peeper up another man's poop shot. These are all natural behaviors, that a human being should emulate. We don't have enough control over ourselves to not do these things.
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And anyway..these behaviors are the driving force behind a species advancement..not procreation.[list=1]
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[list][*]An animal is what an organism is.
[*]A human being is what an animal is.
[*]A homosexual is what an animal is.[/list]
[list][*]Eating feces is what an animal does.
[*]Playing with feces is what an animal does.
[*]Eating the feces of another animal is what an animal does.[/list]
Even a child can tell the difference.
Well when this was studied and I was watching it on tv some time ago, it said that Human Beings weren't programmed to be with one person for the rest of their life. They say that Human Beings are only attracted to their spouse for about 7 yrs, and then it goes away.
I personally don't know, I guess I'll find out if I ever get married and it last for 7 or more yrs.
is it comprehensible.....
This question reminds me of the ol', "If man were meant to fly, he'd have wings!"
What is meant by "natural" when it comes to human affairs? Is clothing natural? Writing? Building machines? None of those things exist in nature, yet it is in our nature to make/do them.
I think "pair bonding" (to use the anthropological term) is natural; there is a lot of evolutionary advantage to it (obviously, or "marriage" would've had a different configuration all this time). The problem is, for 99.9% of homo-sapian existence, the average human lifespan was only about 40-50 years, so staying with one person most of your adult life was workable.
Now, in the last 50-100 years, humans have been living longer and longer, where the average age is almost twice what it used to be. So, IMO, the question may not be "Is it natural?" but rather, "Is it realistic?" especially given a society which emphasizes individual freedom and rights much more so than individual and social responsibility.
Furthermore, if in asking, "Is monogamy (still) realistic?" and the answer is "No," that should Not be taken as license for everyone to start porkin' one another with abandon. The next question should be, "What would be a practical replacement?" keeping in mind the long-term survival of the human species, rather than shallow, short-term hedonism.
jerry
I think I’ll side with those who say monogamy is a choice.
Pair-bonding, to raise off-spring, has its obvious advantages. But why then, does adultery even exist? Is it the male need to spread his semen (and not staying to see if the off-spring survives) and the female need to create bonds with as many possible (alpha)-males, in case she looses her own??
Especially our western culture has idolized TRUE LOVE and “They lived happily ever after” to a point that looks like brainwashing. I bet each and every one of you has experienced falling IN love and then fall out of it again.
Today, where men and women are independent we no longer need each other for practical reasons; the housewife taking care of home and kids, the working man bringing home money, have been replaced by both men and women working and being able to sustain themselves (well, mostly).
New relationships have only the glue of emotions – and what a fragile glue it is.
So, the choice is ours…
Unnatural....
Animals do not often practice this (except for Wolves)
It is not often found in NATURE, so its not natural.
I beleive it to be more of a CUSTOM that we integrated into and what almost all of us strive for.
Monogamy is beautiful, but its not natural. We choose whether or not to do this.
Think about it....if it was NATURAL than EVERYONE would be mongamous, and OBVIOUSLY that is not the case.
i dont see how monogamy could possibly be natural.... staying with one mate an animal would not be fulfilling its basic and unconsience drive to advance the species.
sure u (hopefully) love ur children, but the fact is that 98% of the animals out there dont even have a fleeting thought about their offspring
not to mention the ones that eat their young.... btw humans are animals so this applys to us as well.
Originally posted by ðµhµl gê†ñåh
i dont see how monogamy could possibly be natural.... staying with one mate an animal would not be fulfilling its basic and unconsience drive to advance the species.
But, this addresses only one half of the species. As far as humans are concerned. I'm not trying to fulfill stereotypes, but it is often teh male that wanders first. And it is often the male who justifies these actions because of teh biological cop-out of "spreading the seed".