Babies grow up, though. (Also, the notion of enforced monogamy is repugnant and one can only hope it fades away.)
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Here we come back around to the social pressure. Instead of olde timey religious and political leaders scolding people to conform we have impossibly fit, smart, wealthy, confident cool kids FOMOing everyone else into aping their daring ways
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yeah, that is a dynamic at play... honestly feels like less of a problem to me, the cycle of trying to be like the apex cool kids, getting burned and calming the hell down seems to be mostly working from where i'm standing? is your view different?
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Seeing the world through the portholes of LA, NY and SF probably does not give a representative sampling, so you may be right.
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I'm happy that people aren't bound to bad relationships- but I think a revisiting of the idea of commitment *in this freer, more egalitarian context* might be fruitful. Both men and women may get emotional stability (or something less Folklore Psychology) out of bonding.
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Yeah "emotional stability" not the best description. Intimacy, love, trust, continuity, shared purpose, some of that jazz
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i have a lot of evidence that one can build those things without either massive social punishment for failing to maintain a stable pairbond or the common usage of "commitment" which is about exclusive genital lockdown!
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I think you can and those you know can, but a lot can't. Low-openness people, for example.
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yeah, spose that's fair. i guess after working a lifetime to have unusual capabilities i should consider that maybe it worked
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Contortionists happily contort, number theorists happily theorize, while the bystanders are just scared and confused
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*frightened and bewildered would have sounded better there. Also, thank you for the sustained good faith argufying. A nod in your general direction.
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it is my pleasure, weird sun pal!
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