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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by flukus on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:30PM (#13234530)
The desire to breed is pretty hard wired, species die without it. Sex is only fun because it rewards our desire to breed.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retra on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:35PM (#13234562)
Sex is fun irrespective of it causing breeding. They are evolutionarily linked, but the have no moral relationship within the human brain. The desire to have sex and the desire to have children are for most people, completely independent desires.

And for what it's worth, humans have no obligations to our evolutionary past. "How we evolved" has no direct bearing on what we want (or 'are meant') to do with our lives. It only determines what we are circumstantially capable of.

EDIT: Here's a nerdy analogy for you. There is a relationship between the "programmer's intent" and the "binary program". But that relation has no bearing whatsoever on the relationship between the "binary program" and the "runtime behavior" of that program. These are independent relationships analgous to the relationship between "evolution" to "individual" and "individual" to "individual desires." (The feed-back which would link these -- from "runtime behavior" to "programmer's intent" -- only happens when the programmer is working, long before you end up with the binary you have when you run the program. In fact, this feedback is only ever employed to generate a completely new binary, never to modify the prior one. Thus ensuring that they cannot be co-dependent relationships, and thus evolution has no ability to determine individual behavior past the point of your DNA being fixed at conception.)

Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by freehunter on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:38PM (#13234583)
Yes, but many people have instinctual desires to produce children as well. Ever heard of the phrase "my biological clock is ticking"?
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retra on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:57PM (#13234946)
I said the desire was independent, not non-existent. Did anybody here even read what I wrote?
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by freehunter on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:17AM (#13237355)
I read it, I'm just not sure what the point was.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by hueving on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:57PM (#13234677)
>Sex is fun irrespective of it causing breeding.

I think you're missing the connection. Sex is fun because evolution selects for things that improve reproduction. People that have fun having sex are going to reproduce a lot more than people who don't have fun having sex.

Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retra on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:57PM (#13234949)
I'm not missing the connection, I am saying explicitly that is is unimportant. The only reason it wouldn't be is a lack of suitable birth control access.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by flukus on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:44PM (#13234618)
The desire to have sex is because it's enjoyable, it's enjoyable as a result of evolution.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retra on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:59PM (#13234954)
Yet if you don't want to have sex, you don't have to, despite any evolutionary pressure to do so. So evolution is not a consideration when trying to determine whether you want to have sex.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by smallnamespace on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:25AM (#13235067)
Evolution certainly is relevant if you explicitly think about your own evolutionary origins and what strategies worked out for your ancestors, when deciding what to do yourself.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Retra on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:12PM (#13241265)
Most of your ancestors were nothing like human.