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What’s the point of living if you can’t achieve your biological function?
by mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
What’s the point of living if you can’t achieve your biological function?
- oh_sigh 8y agoIf procreation was the sole important biological function, gay people would be much rarer.
- gowld 8y agoNot necessarily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100204144551.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100204144551.h... "Summary: Male homosexuality doesn't make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. One possible explanation is what evolutionary psychologists call the "kin selection hypothesis." What that means is that homosexuality may convey an indirect benefit by enhancing the survival prospects of close relatives."
- oh_sigh 8y agoRight, but OP seemed to imply that an individual choosing to not procreate was against some kind of basic biological functioning.
- hyperbovine 8y agoThere are a lot of unstated assumptions baked into that sentence.
- perl4ever 8y agoYou seem to be implying that promotion of one's genes is the only worthwhile goal. Stipulating that value system for the sake of argument, procreation is hardly the only way to do that. Literally anything you do in life affects other life forms which share some of your genes.