[quote=harvey]
Natural selection has optimized the economics of the reproductive process.
Mating is a risk/reward decision. The reward is offspring, which is continued existence, which is the only metric that matters in biology.
Biology has created a system with two genders, and the risk/reward profiles are very different for each. Females have limited reproductive resources and take a huge risk every time they mate since pregnancy is very dangerous. So female behavior has evolved to be selective. Males have effectively unlimited reproductive resources and incur very little risk for the same reward.
In the context of biology, men are not absurd because nothing is absurd. There is no right or wrong. There is only a single, binary standard: an organism exists or it does not.
But the ethics we’ve invented in modern society ignores biology, creating an irreconcilable chasm between reality and ideals.
That’s why we have, and probably will always will have, the mess that we are in today.[/quote]
