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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
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Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Summary: (why isn't soc.couples in the distribution?)
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Date: 5 Dec 90 16:14:12 GMT
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This is straying rather far from the topic, but what the hell...

In article <3067@igloo.scum.com> learn@igloo.scum.com (Bill HMRP Vajk) writes:
>
>As far as I know, it is only human beings who have a relatively universal
>respect for the life of others of the species. Suggesting that human males
>are apt to kill previously conceived offspring prior to mating seems a pretty 
>demented outlook to me.
>
I dunno about "regular folks," but if you read much history you'll find that
a behavior much like that happened quite often in the courts of rulers, pretty
much everywhere in the world -- my qualification would be that it usually
happens AFTER mating with the new partner, not before, and that the instigator
is as likely, or more likely, to be the female.  Think, just for example,
of the Roman Empire, where Emperor's wife #2 regularly poisons the sons of
wife #1.

And why is it that in fairy tales, the stepmother is always wicked, hmm?
Sending Hansel and Gretel off to die of starvation in the woods...

--K



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