More debate on broodiness

[djpsyche]

Mainly in case ford_prefect42 doesn't come back to my previous post.

"I kinda figure that everyone has an inborn compulsion to reproduce. It's kinda evolutionary."It's an interesting theory and I'd like to pick it apart

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[sushidog]

Again, you're responding to a fair number of things I either didn't say, or of which I said the opposite.
No, I'm not. I'm responding very specifically to things you did say, an which I've explicitly quoted. I'm not sure why you're claiming otherwise, given that the quotes are right there, in italics, in my comment.

I wasn't maintaining my prior position based on my (limited) experience, I was explaining why I had come to it to begin with.
But you followed with " I won't try to argue that it's logical, or rational, or that it's anything other than selfish. It's primal, but it's there." That makes it sound as though you are still maintaining the same position, not just explaining why you used to think that way.

I wasn't saying that humans don't have social pressures, I was pointing out that, with or without social pressures, reproduction is near-universal.
Why bring in the fact that bonobos, rats and sheep don't have social pressure (actually, bonobos do; they ostracise members of the group who misbehave) if not to try and suggest that humans don't? It's a pretty weird tangent to go on if you weren't trying to make that claim.

In future, you should try to read to the end of a comment before replying.
Perhaps you should read your own comments before posting them? I mean, yes, you did indeed contradict yourself at the end of the comment I replied to, and that is indeed quite confusing and unclear. But I responded to things you had said within your comment. If you no longer meant them, perhaps you could have made that clear.

[ford_prefect42]

This conversation has become pointless.

[djpsyche]

Because she's right.
Also, people have expanded upon the topic, which is absolutely allowable. Having a view on children might not be a direct response to your theories but people are certainly welcome to share that view, just as you were welcome to share your view on "inborn compulsions" on a post that wasn't directly related to that.