sapphi_snake said:
@Kasz216:
Most do anyway. Some evloutionary biologicsts say differently... though none of it is ever based on numbers. Just on... "Evolutionary biology is real, therefore rape is some weird biologcal anomly from back when we were animals and there was no consent and male animals just took their mates."
Wait... so those scenes you see in cartoons with cavemen smacking cavewomen on the head with clubs and then dragging them by the hair to the cave actually happened? Anyways, while rape does happen in the wild, I don't think that's how the majority of copulations go down. It's generally the women going with the most capable suitor, no?
(BTW, to what part of my post was this a reply to?)
There is one real outlier in the studies though. Prostitutes. Obviously not many are dressed conservativly, and they are often raped, largely because they know there is little they can do. First they'd have to explain why they were where they were, and many have been picked up before, so cops might just assume it was a john who later refused to pay.
Well, that and it's not unheard of... and actually way more common then it should be, for a vice cop to bust a prostitute, then threaten to turn her in... unless...
Yet again another reason why prostitution should be legalized. (I also doubt their clothes were a significant factor though)
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Don't know. Evolutionary biology and psychology suggests that since we evolved from primates that all of our current thinking is based off of how primates used to act and every decision we make is still based on and controlled by the evolutionary thinking of our ancestor animals. So that every decision an average person can make is likely based on a decision an animal in our chain would make.
For example, fear of the dark is fairly widespread among all cultures often attributed to the fact that many predators of primates hunted at night. (VS say, the fact that in the dark... things are... DARK therefore we can't see as well, therefore more noises are unexplained and vision is our primary sense being how we navigate in the world..)
Evolutionary biology/psychology/sociology of this kind is basically a hasty "prove all" for people who want to be able to explain human thinking. They think humans have free will because they can choose options... but given the same options and scenario they will ALWAYS pick the same option... and why they pick this can be traced back to human kinds ancestors. The ironic part is people who do this research are often considered extreme right wingers... even though it's essentially done only by atheists. Maybe beacuse it's more popular in europe. I'm not sure if the same Right wing = more religious correlation happens in europe. Heck, evolutionary biology says religions were created specifically because for some reason they provided some surivival advantage (more cooperation within groups) or as a byproduct of other survival advantages. (Abstract thinking, the ability to perceive that others have consiousness and understanding of mortality. Though i'd note that at the very least 2 and 3 would suggest most animals have gods. I think animals have shown abstract thinking as well, at least some, however i'm unsure of that).
Well that's what an outlier is more often then not. A datapoint that doesn't fit with what is ususally observed, usually do to external pressuers. I brought it up to cut off a future arguement involving prostitutes should someone else feel like mentioning it. It was a common technique of Freud. Much less people argue if you are able to counter their objections without them having to present them, because they no longer think you are just uninformed and the less longer into an arguement people are, the more likely they are to admit they are wrong.
Hence a "Hanging trap" where you deliberatly don't adress someone to show them being illogical by them either contradicting their other point, or having a load of data really is only useful when the other person has a history of not changing their mind.
