BUT do all humans do these things all the time like chimpanzees do? Why not? Why haven't I had sex with a man like chimpanzees do? My biological programming on the blink?Humans do all these things as well.. Guess you have never picked up a newspaper in awhile or ever watched a show on prison inmates and how they treat gaurds.. Must have also missed the gay pride movement
Yes, I put humans on a pedestal! Ha, morality is subjective (usually when the person wants or needs it to be for their own purposes - see moral relativism!) Do animals have morality? Do animals have a conscience? Are animals capable of rational/logical thought? Can animals invent things that have no immediate purpose to them? And the biggest roadblock to believing in the "myth" of imperative polygamy IS this question:No, its not. Unless you are the type that puts humans on a pedestal. We really are not that superior to many of our closest relatives. Morality is subjective and is not indicative of superiority. It is simply a survival tool that we don't use very well. We still kill more of each other and other living animals than any other living creature on the planet.. And we are by far the most violent creatures living on earth. Apparently we can pick and choose, we humans do it all the time. You might want to re-check your statement that we are not animals also. I think many biologists and scientists would not agree.
Do animals have self-control?
Sure we are violent and YES we kill lots of people and animals everyday. IF you were making the argument that animals usually kill for need rather than want, I agree BUT we are superior if simply for that fact that we can make concentrated efforts to change our behaviors while animals can not.
So the female chimpanzee needs to be "emotionally aroused" to have sex? Ummm.......perhaps you haven't been around for awhile. MANY women in this country get "physically" aroused when they wish to have sex. Experienced it myself! Also being "selective?" See the MAURY show to debunk this notion. Also, what is the criteria that they "select" from? Since, IMHO, this has changed over the course of human existence, then the traits being "selected" are by rational choice NOT biological programming!What?!?! Women are not built this way. Men are built to get physically aroused, women are built to become emotionally aroused.. Women would never feel the need to mate with as many males as possible, their job is to be selective.. If they were physically aroused like men, the species would not filter out the weaker genes..
HOW do you inherit "social" traits through DNA? Give me an example of genetic social traits. I always thought that social traits were learned behavior, for the most part.Any genes that make a human more likely to survive in the enviornment it lives in. It is not limited to physical traits, also social traits as well.
We do this, obviously you live in a bubble..
You missed my point. Some human "animal" in the distant past MUST have, somehow and someway, resisted the overriding imperative of his so called "biological programming" in order to settle with just one woman in a monogamous relationship. IF this wasn't the norm so WHY did he do it? Could it have been that his "biological programming" was overridden by something else?
HOW do we live in semi-peaceful societies WHEN our "biological programming" tells us to murder, rape and kill at will?
In conclusion, all I am saying is this:
IF a man wants to cheat on his spouse or his girlfriend or his "special" friend or whatever. If a man wants a different woman everyday of his life. IF a man wants to live a polygamy life, at least OWN UP TO IT! Trying to rationalize/justify it by shrugging his shoulders and blaming "biological programming" is about as cowardly as it gets. It means this man feels he has NO control over his actions and therefore wants NO consequences or blame from them.
How childlike, pathetic and weak is that?