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From: barry@netcom.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
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Date: 27 Nov 90 17:38:59 GMT
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In article <59261@microsoft.UUCP> rodvan@microsoft.UUCP (Rod VAN MECHELEN) writes:
>In article <16791@netcom.UUCP>, barry@netcom.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
>> In article <59079@microsoft.UUCP> rodvan@microsoft.UUCP (Rod VAN MECHELEN) writes:
>> >we survive by virtue of our rational faculty.
>> 
>> 	Surely not only that? Mating is an important part of
>> racial survival, but mating seems to have a very necessary
>> bit of irrationality about it :-).
>
>Which is?

	Love. And sex.

>And why?

	Beats the shit out of me :-).

>Just because 99% of the human population behaves like an 
>idiot doesn't mean idiocy is either a desirable characteristic
>or necessary to our survival.

	There's more to life than survival. I don't think love
would be as rewarding as it is, were it reducible to purely
logical components. Rationality is overrated. Logic is only
one minor function of the human brain, and in some ways a
trivial one. We can program machines to be logical, but we
can't (yet, at least) program them to appreciate beauty, to
feel love, or to understand self-sacrifice.

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                Kenn Barry
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