tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post337008654937136409..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: Virginity BallsM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-72539309410607682972009-05-18T12:57:00.000+00:002009-05-18T12:57:00.000+00:00Don't forget that the leading mode of HIV transmis...<I>Don't forget that the leading mode of HIV transmission in Africa, and some communities in the developed world, is promiscuous sex.</I><BR><BR><B>Unprotected</B> promiscuous sex.M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-35457261718711157152009-05-18T06:56:00.000+00:002009-05-18T06:56:00.000+00:00Re: AIDS,
Don't forget that the leading mode of HI...Re: AIDS,<br />Don't forget that the leading mode of HIV transmission in Africa, and some communities in the developed world, is promiscuous sex.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821626991025650182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-89178078093668035052009-05-13T13:55:00.000+00:002009-05-13T13:55:00.000+00:00BTW you could see the change beginning in the dete...BTW you could see the change beginning in the detective show "Simon and Simon". The smart guy did get the babes - occasionally. Not as often as the hunks to be sure. But before that I don't recall the dynamic.<br /><br />Did Dr. Zarkov (Flash Gordon) ever get the chicks? Not as I recall.M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-48410645373818773382009-05-13T13:49:00.000+00:002009-05-13T13:49:00.000+00:00tom,
Genetic theory is what it is. What we do abo...tom,<br /><br />Genetic theory is what it is. What we do about it determines whether we are civilized or not. <br /><br />Man in his natural state is not a pleasant creature. I was under the impression that conservatives knew that. <br /><br />I take it I was mistaken.<br /><br />I'm not anti-Darwin because Darwin explains the natural world. Natural selection pretty much explains what goes on in the natural world and what we know about genetics supports Darwin. To not follow science on moral grounds is absurd. Even the Catholic Church is not that stupid anymore. They are Darwinists in so far as science goes.<br /><br />The question is: should humans work to reinforce the Darwinian imperatives or ought we work to mitigate Darwin? Death camps or hospitals.<br /><br />I'm all for using technology to ameliorate our natural condition. It is why I'm an engineer.<br /><br />Birth control (if used) has separated us from some elements of traditional culture. I believe that is good. But you know, transitions are always hard. I trust humans to find cultural adaptations to changes in technology. Over time.<br /><br />Infanticide was a popular method of family planning for millenia. Birth control is better.<br /><br />So what are the long term prospects? If women who don't want children have a relatively easy way to avoid pregnancy then we will be continually reinforcing genetically the desire of women to have children in following generations. children. Because only women who <B>want</B> children will be reproducing.<br /><br />In the long run we will get better mothers.<br /><br />We are seeing some of this already among the upper classes. Children are a status symbol. In my own effort to reduce the natural trend I had decided long ago that my minimum family size was three. We got four. <br /><br />As to your other point. That was covered pretty well in <B>The Bell Curve</B>. And funny thing - in first world countries intelligence has been increasing for the last 100 years. What is IQ 100 today would have been IQ 120 a hundred years ago. A lot of that is attributed to better nutrition. I'm of the opinion that some of it is due to the option for better mate selection birth control provides. <br /><br />We see some of that already. Nerds are more competitive in the marriage market than they were 100 years ago. The epithet "pointy headed intellectuals" is not common these days. It was when I was a kid. And "long hairs" has changed its meaning. Culture has changed. For the better. In response to the environment. <br /><br />And what does our environment reward most? Brains. <br /><br />A female cousin of mine once told me that she was wrong for being so dismissive of nerds when we were going to school (in the 50s and 60s). No doubt she has imparted that wisdom to her daughters.M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-85869575829481091152009-05-11T15:23:00.000+00:002009-05-11T15:23:00.000+00:00I am impressed. You DO understand what i've been s...I am impressed. You DO understand what i've been saying. <br /><br /><br />DavidRavingDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07671059573191161552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-18806198656350492452009-05-10T19:48:00.000+00:002009-05-10T19:48:00.000+00:00Our genes have 1 law. The law of the jungle. Often...Our genes have 1 law. The law of the jungle. Often quite correctly described as "the weak must perish".<br /><br />That supposed "property of reality", including our own society, is the very cornerstone of any genetic algorithm. Without it, nothing of the mechanisms work : worse, whatever you had accomplished before in the algorithm collapses.<br /><br />But hey, this is what atheists "believe". Of course many have never tried a genetic algorithm. Even few of the people that *did* try genetic algorithms have ever tried to see what happens if you remove natural selection (everybody's performance plummets. as does memory usage).<br /><br />Do you know what that means ? That means, to put it bluntly, that unless the weak (ie. the poor) die in small numbers everyday (because they starve, because the rest kills them, because ... whatever, just as long as they die we have natural selection), we all become proto-humans, monkeys and eventually just totally disfunctional organisms. All of our offspring, not just the currently "genetically ill" races/families.<br /><br />The consequences of evolution theory are more than enough reason, by themselves, not to believe in it. If they're true, we should stop this civilization thing asap and start trying to kill eachother.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714394489266177248noreply@blogger.com