Re:It's Different for Girls
by wpietri on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:31AM
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Territory is a deeply animal behavior, as is alpha male claiming of mates. So I think that property rights are an elaboration of primate instincts.
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Re:It's Different for Girls
by stcredzero on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:48AM
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The actions probably get initiated a full second before the thought of "property" ever enters anyone's head, if it does at all.
Would you argue that ideas like "family" would not engage at a subconcious level for extremely social animals like humans? If you wouldn't argue against "family" being instinctual, then you can't argue against "mine-ness", since family is by definition something that is "mine" vs "yours".
Re:It's Different for Girls
by stcredzero on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @02:05PM
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Would you argue that ideas like "family" would not engage at a subconscious level for extremely social animals like humans?
I would argue that there is a concept of "relatedness" encoded into Homo sapiens on the instinctive level. The notion of "family" is at least in part a cultural construct on top of that. Also, who said I was arguing against "mine-ness?" I certainly didn't. I'm just highlighting possible unacknowledged/unsupported assumptions in this thread. (Like your apparent assumption of a particular stance on my part.)