>Because reproductive success is the ultimate goal of all living organisms
I know it's popular and often interesting to examine evolutionary motivation for behavior, but there's a line crossed in saying it's the ultimate goal for all life.
We have a long history of celibate lifestyles. We have a long history of discovering motivations that supercede our biological imperatives.
This is an article with some vaguely cited statistics and some vaguely stated opinions.
There isn't even the basic attempt to qualify the most important things in life. It seems that this is because the submitted title is linkbait and much different from the actual title ('The Disadvantage of Smarts,' hardly better); the content seems to be a low-key low-detail interview.
the more I look at this the more I suspect ballot-stuffing to get this to the front page. 13 points and it's at #4 after 48 minutes?
Well, I guess that fulfills my grumpy quota for a while.
But he does not say "the ultimate goal for all life." He says,
"... the ultimate goal of all living organisms."
"Life" is vague and philosophically interesting; "living organism" is less so, and if philosophically interesting, it's interesting for different reasons.
>Because reproductive success is the ultimate goal of all living organisms
I know it's popular and often interesting to examine evolutionary motivation for behavior, but there's a line crossed in saying it's the ultimate goal for all life.
We have a long history of celibate lifestyles. We have a long history of discovering motivations that supercede our biological imperatives.
This is an article with some vaguely cited statistics and some vaguely stated opinions.
There isn't even the basic attempt to qualify the most important things in life. It seems that this is because the submitted title is linkbait and much different from the actual title ('The Disadvantage of Smarts,' hardly better); the content seems to be a low-key low-detail interview.
the more I look at this the more I suspect ballot-stuffing to get this to the front page. 13 points and it's at #4 after 48 minutes?
Well, I guess that fulfills my grumpy quota for a while.