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Re:Love is biological bribery? by raducu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:13AM (#30359530)
> If everything in reality is made from nails, then it makes sense to look for the hammer that hammered it in. Everything in human psychology was in fact molded through evolution, so of course it makes sense to look to evolution for potential answers.

What is the question and what are the possible answers? What difference would it make in our morals?

That sounds like the reverse of the good old "Well, if God does not exist, why don't you just kill random people, then?"

Anger and violence and rape and murder, are all bilogical and evolutionary based. So what?

> "If a culture artificially forces relationships to last by, say, heavily stigmatizing divorce, then of course that's going to override the "natural" course of events.

See the above argument, it changes nothing. And by the way, divorce is more normalized than ever and divorce rates are falling in the developed world.

On the countrary, if lustful love is just a chemical process that eventually wears off, you're better off not divorcing. If love was this astral magestic thing, then sure, divorce and pursue it.

People have this idea "yeah, but back then, there was no marriage and both men and women could just fuck arround".

Sure, some people did just like today, but back then, we lived in small groups, a coule hundred individuals, the opportunities to fuck around were not as great as today and there was no anonymity as today.

I've been 20 pumped with testosterone. Was it not for my religious education and moral sense, I would probably have slept with a lot more women. Between age 20-35 I think I only cried 3 times, when my grandparents died.

As my testosterone levels are declining, my emotions are coming back.

I'm still the same biological organism, evolution did not intend one course or the other. I just find a lot of satisfaction now from family life.

There is no contradiction or dilema for me. I do not feel oppressed by society or morals or biology.

Re:Love is biological bribery? by selestify on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#30360957)
> What is the question and what are the possible answers? What difference would it make in our morals?

Who said anything about morals here? The questions are, why do we feel the way we do, and why do our feelings make us act the way we do? Evo-psych gives some ways of possibly answering that. How we got here is largely independent of where we want to go from here.

> There is no contradiction or dilema for me. I do not feel oppressed by society or morals or biology.

I honestly don't know what the rest of your comment has anything to do with any of what the article is talking about. When did the article bring up any contradictions?

Re:Love is biological bribery? by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:20AM (#30359581)
> And by the way, divorce is more normalized than ever and divorce rates are falling in the developed world.

I think people are dealing with the issue on the other end, by just not getting married in the first place.

Re:Love is biological bribery? by raducu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:24AM (#30359628)
Some people, sure, but I'm willing to bet it's not because they want to to more easily dump the other person. Most of them, at least.
Re:Love is biological bribery? by dahfizz on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:27AM (#30361178)
Why else would you avoid marriage, then?
Re:Love is biological bribery? by hackerfromthefu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:58PM (#30363278)
Avoiding getting your assets stripped?
Re:Love is biological bribery? by dahfizz on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:19PM (#30363572)
That feels like a variation on "they want to more easily dump the other person."
Re:Love is biological bribery? by thatcat on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:00PM (#30367043)
The other person could dump you and still result in loss of assets.