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Funny and sad to see a lot of old solved problems getting rediscovered because of novel technology and "generational amnesia." It's like how every crypto guy ba
by VoodooJuJu 3y ago
Funny and sad to see a lot of old solved problems getting rediscovered because of novel technology and "generational amnesia." It's like how every crypto guy basically just rediscovered modern finance and the reason for its rules and regulations.
Here we have a couple problems: (1) how do we know who the father is? (2) how can avoid diluting the gene pool?
Solution (discovered thousands of years ago): monogamy, made publicly explicit through marriage ceremonies and enforced via shaming or persecuting fornicators, adulterers, and exalting as virtues both chastity and temperance
But no, in the modern Religion of Progress, it's sacrilege to deny the individual autonomy to do literally whatever they want.
Just another example of the possible consequences when you start pathologizing age-old Lindy values, tenets, customs, systems, etc.
- reanimus 3y agoPretty sure there are no fornicators or adulterers mentioned even obliquely in this article. What on earth are you on about?
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago> Solution (discovered thousands of years ago): monogamy When and where was monogamy common thousands of years ago? At best serial monogamy was. But among higher status people it was frequently just monoandry.