Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
by stavros on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:00PM
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What irks me is that the every time someone finds an evolutionary reason for something, it is just as easy to find an evolutionary reason to explain the opposite of it, which makes the explanation useless.
For example, "men evolved to be promiscuous because having many children gave the biggest chance at surviving offspring" makes sense until you realize "men evolved to be faithful because nurturing their children gave them the biggest chance at surviving offspring" makes just as much sense.
When your theory can explain everything, it can explain nothing.
Re:Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
by kebbekaise on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:47AM
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Both of those explanations vaguely make sense. And indeed both strategies are seen in nature.
Neither approach is strictly better than the other. It's situational.
You gotta look at how many resources are available how easy and predation pressure and probably lots of more factors.
It's like they think that just because evolution itself is basically a status quo in the scientific community, then any other random preposterous bs argument that you make about it, or just use the evolutionary terms in, would somehow automatically by association have as much predictive power/internal coherence/pure basic connection to reality as the evolution itself. It's a disgrace this is so prevalent nowadays... It is a clear sign that whoever writes the content is no real scientist.