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haihaibye 6y ago
“Daly and Wilson found stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified..a stepparent is 40-100 times more likely to kill a young child, even when confounding factors— poverty, mother’s age, traits of people who tend to remarry—are taken into account" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide
- cmendel 6y ago
  Okay? That doesn't really support toasterlovin's claim that: >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. Stepparenthood implies a myriad of confounding factors, not the least of which are, a) death of a parent or b) Divorce. Upon further investigation, the link you posted does not contain the quote you posted, nor does searching the quoted text show return any results on either DuckDuckGo or Google. It is possible that this is a typographical error. I do want to point that EvoPsych is a bit iffy as far as fields go. See [1] if you're curious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Reception_and_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Recept...
  - haihaibye 6y ago
    Being 40-100 times less likely to kill a child is probably correlated with caring for them more. It was a quote from Pinker's how the mind works. The 'Daly and Wilson' referenced was what I linked to.
toasterlovin 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of people opt to have their own children rather than adopt. It is not me who bears the burden of proof.
- cmendel 6y ago
  That is an entirely different claim than the one that you made previously. >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. != >The overwhelming majority of people opt to have their own children rather than adopt. It is not me who bears the burden of proof.
  - toasterlovin 6y ago
    It’s not completely unrelated. It’s just not exactly the same. But I’m not sure what to tell you, since you seem to have no real understanding of basic human nature. You should talk to people about how they feel about other people’s kids. It will be illuminating for you.
    - cmendel 6y ago
      Ad hominem attacks seem to be a disproportionate response to pointing out your inconsistency.
      - toasterlovin 6y ago
        You’re doing the equivalent of asking me to provide evidence that the sky is blue. We are biological organisms who are capable of recognizing our young. There is no plausible way that we could have evolved to not prefer our own children over others. If your stance is that we don’t have such a preference, you need to provide the evidence, because you are the one taking the outlandish position.

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“Daly and Wilson found stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified..a stepparent is 40-100 times more likely to kill a young child, even when confounding factors— poverty, mother’s age, traits of people who tend to remarry—are taken into account" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide

cmendel 6y ago
Okay? That doesn't really support toasterlovin's claim that: >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. Stepparenthood implies a myriad of confounding factors, not the least of which are, a) death of a parent or b) Divorce. Upon further investigation, the link you posted does not contain the quote you posted, nor does searching the quoted text show return any results on either DuckDuckGo or Google. It is possible that this is a typographical error. I do want to point that EvoPsych is a bit iffy as far as fields go. See [1] if you're curious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Reception_and_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Recept...
- haihaibye 6y ago
  Being 40-100 times less likely to kill a child is probably correlated with caring for them more. It was a quote from Pinker's how the mind works. The 'Daly and Wilson' referenced was what I linked to.

toasterlovin 6y ago

The overwhelming majority of people opt to have their own children rather than adopt. It is not me who bears the burden of proof.

cmendel 6y ago
That is an entirely different claim than the one that you made previously. >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. != >The overwhelming majority of people opt to have their own children rather than adopt. It is not me who bears the burden of proof.
- toasterlovin 6y ago
  It’s not completely unrelated. It’s just not exactly the same. But I’m not sure what to tell you, since you seem to have no real understanding of basic human nature. You should talk to people about how they feel about other people’s kids. It will be illuminating for you.
  - cmendel 6y ago
    Ad hominem attacks seem to be a disproportionate response to pointing out your inconsistency.
    - toasterlovin 6y ago
      You’re doing the equivalent of asking me to provide evidence that the sky is blue. We are biological organisms who are capable of recognizing our young. There is no plausible way that we could have evolved to not prefer our own children over others. If your stance is that we don’t have such a preference, you need to provide the evidence, because you are the one taking the outlandish position.