No On 8 / No On Religion
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This reminds me of the Japanese movie, Dead Or Alive: Final where one of the characters gives his opinion on heterosexual relationships as being tainted by the prospect of procreation, whereas homosexual relationships constitute true love because they are not adulterated in this way. Interesting perspective, to say the least.
That is not to say that it isn't clear which is the natural way of things if the goal is reproduction.
However, while we still chose partners based on our reproductive instincts, we are also a species for which sex is also a cultural and recreational thing, and this is where things become very subjective and relative
However, while we still chose partners based on our reproductive instincts, we are also a species for which sex is also a cultural and recreational thing, and this is where things become very subjective and relative
the short answer is: survival of the species
The long answer is that reproduction has no function, because nothing in biology has a function, contrary to the impression one will almost certainly get when reading the textbooks without thinking deeply about them. Reproduction is a lot more special in this regard though, because it is the best example for why nothing in biology has any function. Without reproduction there would be no organisms, no evolution, and no life. In other words, the existence of life is entirely dependent on it having the property of being able to reproduce itself. Which in turn means, that the appearance of reproduction made life possible, which tells us that reproduction does not have "the function of propagating the genes of the organism, the species, life in general, etc.", but rather that all of those are byproduct of the property of genomes to reproduce themselves
I hope I was clear enough
The long answer is that reproduction has no function, because nothing in biology has a function, contrary to the impression one will almost certainly get when reading the textbooks without thinking deeply about them. Reproduction is a lot more special in this regard though, because it is the best example for why nothing in biology has any function. Without reproduction there would be no organisms, no evolution, and no life. In other words, the existence of life is entirely dependent on it having the property of being able to reproduce itself. Which in turn means, that the appearance of reproduction made life possible, which tells us that reproduction does not have "the function of propagating the genes of the organism, the species, life in general, etc.", but rather that all of those are byproduct of the property of genomes to reproduce themselves
I hope I was clear enough
I do not see the connection between me trying to achieve something and me being an idiot
Life has no purpose on its own, it is the phylogenetic instinct for survival (which is tightly couple with the reproduction property of living things) that makes me worry about the future
We are all tools for our genomes to make more copies of themselves and that's what everyone of use is trying to do, consciously or not. It is just that most of us try do make as many copies of their genes as possible in the short term while a very small number see the big picture and realize that if we were to do that, there will be no copies of our genes in the long term
Life has no purpose on its own, it is the phylogenetic instinct for survival (which is tightly couple with the reproduction property of living things) that makes me worry about the future
We are all tools for our genomes to make more copies of themselves and that's what everyone of use is trying to do, consciously or not. It is just that most of us try do make as many copies of their genes as possible in the short term while a very small number see the big picture and realize that if we were to do that, there will be no copies of our genes in the long term
i have nothing wrong with homosexuals at all. nothing wrong with love. society just seems to go really overboard with giving groups of people new rights and what not. i dont wanna see homosexual marriage stem into homosexual classes being taught in school where my kids go. furthermore, homosexuality is counterproductive to the whole reason we are here in the first place. which is to reproduce. like i said, children need to be protected above all through this because like thaG said, what we are here for is to make copies. also i believe, we are here to try and make our copies better than ourselves, so they can push society further and what not.
