c20H25N3o said:
Procreation is survival. Have you ever had your survival threatened? There is something hardwired in our biology to survive even against the odds. Think of that survival instinct like a signature that runs through every biological process, right down to the core. It is our basic instinct to procreate our species. For this reason we are generally speaking in favour of heterosexual relationships because they are key to the struggle for survival of the species.
EVen the best medicine in the world if taken in excess becomes poison.
The more a quality is important for a species survival, the more limited quantity it is required in, and the more possibility of it becoming suicidal if present in excess.
(On the conttrary sexual instincts between men is not about survival but the quality of life and the species invests its members with liberal amounts of it!)
Sure procreation is very important for the survival of the species. I am also assuming here that Darwin's contention that survival is the only driving force of living beings is true (which I don't believe!). But this importance is only at the species level not the individual level. The species distributes various survival elements (of which procreation is only one!) and other important elements that make this life worthwhile amongst its various constituent individuals, who then act accordingly. The species while doing so makes sure that any one element (including procreation!) does not become so excessive as to the harm the species itself and disturb the precarious balance of nature.
c20H25N3o said:
I think at a subconcious level people want to pass on their genes. There is something particulary satisfying knowing you leave children who may have children and so on.
I agree that an instinct to pass one's genes can be very strong. But it is not an omnipresent need and not something that is present at all times in a man's life. There is a proper time for it, when the many males (but not all males) want to pass on their genes. And then comes the role of sex with women. Unless and until that times come, sexual feelings for women don't happen on their own and have to be artificically triggered in human beings --- hence the intricate social mechanism.
Letting the branch of which you were a part, grow on and on from your seed.
Nice prose. But watch out for your limits, because there are other trees that need to grow too. Nature as the big boss, can't allow only you to grow --- and grow more than you require, and take up the space of other trees.
Survival is one thing. Dominance and exploitation is another.
It is stupid to claim that passing on the gene is the only reason for sexuality to exist.
c20H25N3o said:
There are of course a vast majority of couples who live successfully together and really enjoy their children and grandchildren, for whom concepts of sexuality are not an issue.
And how do you know the vast majority likes to do that. In the west now, according to a survey I've read only 20% or men marry, and there too the rate of divorces are extremely high.
And how do you know that for those who are happily married, concepts of sexuality are not an issue. Is that what you've seen in movies. People make compromises in life and try to make the best of it. They are not going to tell you about their problems or cry before you. (I've seen innumerous happily married men struggling with their sexual feelings for men).
c20H25N3o said:
The first non-blood relationship a child experiences is that of their parents.
Strange because we consider parents and siblings and uncles and aunts and cousins to be blood relatives. I guess a difference of cultural perception.
c20H25N3o said:
Thats probably a pretty big psychological marker that determines the nature of the sexual relationships that that child will prefer when they are old enough to choose a partner. There will be exceptions to that rule surely but in the main, this is how society is made up where I am from.
That theory does not make much sense except if you can prove sexual orientation to be real for the vast majority. Even then this theory is too far fetched. Funny that you should claim as what your society is made up of where you are from!
c20H25N3o said:
The greed statement is a theory at best right?
Any thing that describes our history that far will only be a theory. But this theory best fits evidences from all sources --- from animal behaviour to to historical evidences to modern human behaviour to the nature of social mechanisms and pressures to other miscellaneous evidences (e.g. common sense and the mess and waste products that human mechanisms have created in this world!).
I mean this theory is what you get when you piece all the evidences together. Then it becomes as easy as joining the numbered dots to present the real picture. There will be some gaps naturally, but for the most part the theory will hold good.
Or do you or someone else have a theory which better explain the evidences.