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Fine, but the sexual doesn't fit into those hypothetical categories. sexual, by definition, does not reproduce through normal sexual interaction since like genders cannot produce offspring. This isn't a social limitation, but a biological one.
False.
Fails for social species.
Consider:
Two siblings. One sexual, one not.
The hetero sibling has a child, and, by extension an aunt or uncle, with no offspring to care for. If something happens to the hetero parent, the sexual sibling can step in and provide resources for the offspring that vastly increase its survival chances.
One can assume that sexuality, likely a host of gene effects, some more strongly expressed than others, is carried by the offspring.
Fine, but the sexual doesn't fit into those hypothetical categories. sexual, by definition, does not reproduce through normal sexual interaction since like genders cannot produce offspring. This isn't a social limitation, but a biological one.
https://www.newscientist.com/article... sexuality/
The evidence is there through a search. There are, unsurprisingly, actual studies on it.
Again, you seem to be confusing entire organisms with the individual alleles and gametes.
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-evoluti...r-beetles.html
Same sex behavior happens quite a bit in many species, including other primate species. This strongly implies that there are things working that means sexuality is not as clearly negative to reproduction as you seem to believe.
Conflating political spectrum with morality assumes there are absolute moral poles. I dont buy it.
Isn't balance the middle of a scale? All five indicators were in the middle for the right, and highly skewed for the left.
Lot of people here deeply invested in proving sexuality is unnatural and wrong.
It's odd to me that such dire emphasis is laid on who other people and how. The topic clearly stirs passion.
Look at what you're implying: that same sex partners can produce offspring. If there was a shipwrecked on an island and there were only men on the ship and no one ever rescued them nor discovered the island and 140 years later someone visited that island, would you expect they might find human life?
If not, why?
If so, how?
You seem to have keen psychological insight into other posters based on fleeting interactions online. How did you acquire it?
If you got out of that "same sex partners can produce offspring". My apologies for not communicating effectively.
My point was:
same sex behavior exists, not just in humans but in other species. As far as we can tell, sexuality has been around a long time.
Since natural selection is rather ruthless at weeding out genes that are clearly deleterious, this implies that the genes/gene groups that govern sexuality is/are not solely deleterious.
Wolves live in matrilineal packs.
Often non-alpha females do not reproduce in a given year.
Yet the presence of these non-reproducing females increases the odds of the year's cubs surviving, because wolves hunt in packs, i.e. are social. In this way the collective genes of the group are passed on.
Humans are the same.
In social, cooperative species, you cannot isolate consideration of any given set of alleles to individual organisms.
very interesting thread on just this topic:
tweet not showing up.
but yes, both sex, sexual iden y, and sexual preference are all on spectrums, and not really binary
If you take the "patriotic" adjective out of your conservative "friend's" description of liberal, it would describe (in the age of Trump) my liberal's views of conservatives (especially Trump voters). Of course most of my friends are academics (live in a college town, run in college circles), so from their standpoint most everyone is unintelligent.
It is, however, the belief that those that disagree are not only wrong, but stupid and immoral that has created such a divide and inability to have any type of Socratic dialogue. Not very effective for the country, but very effective at giving 2-year (sic) term congressmen lifetime jobs while "living" in gerrymandered districts.
That's a certain few people in this form to a T. They know who they are.
You're an idiot.
Said Mr. Pigeonholed-1-point-of-view-closed-minded-idiot. Get a new schtick.
shows up for me
Feminism allegedly damages the marriage cow, also known as a bride.
What is paterfamilias but disposal of wife, daughter and children qua cattle?
Possibly because the image is in your local cache. That happens sometimes when linking things from other places.
Dunno.
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