On 4/14/2014 4:51 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
3) You assume that going against your simple reproductive program will cause
suffering
This is a weird assumption. Consider this: you cannot decide to stop breathing. Your
brain literally won't let you. So evolution did not select breathing to be an optional
behaviour. But it did select breading to be an optional behaviour. Otherwise there would
be a whole lot more rape, just like in most of the animal kingdom.
You are right of course that the human evolutionary 'program' is different from that of
almost all mammmals. But if it were like other mammmals there wouldn't be more rape.
There is seldom rape among mammals because the female becomes receptive when she ovulates
and readily accepts males and otherwise she is not sexually attractive to the males.
Humans and bonobos are unusual among mammals in that females are sexually receptive even
when not ovulating. This is probably an evolutionary adaptation to achieve couple bonding
which is useful in raising a child that takes many years to become self-sufficient. I
recommend the book by Jared Diamond "Why is Sex Fun?".
Brent
Why was optional breading selected? We can speculate. It is quite obvious that the
"niche" that humans explore is superior adaptation. We are not particularly strong nor
particularly resilient, nor can we run particularly fast. But we can adapt very quickly
to a wide range of circumstances. At some point there was a choice between
optional/non-optional in reproduction. Optional won. You ignore this.
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