To: jpmac who wrote (52386 ) 8/21/1999 2:17:00 AM From: E Read Replies (4) | Respond to
<<<I think it is overstating the importance of the human race to suggest that someone who does not does choose to continue it by mating with someone s/he does not want to mate with is a sociopath... How is that sociopathic or even selfish? The earth sure doesn't need us. So who we would be doing it for? And why? >>>stipulated in my illustration that the woman "had been pleased at her so-far allotted existence among us," and that the reason she would decline to allow millions upon millions of other human beings to experience the pleasures and joys of human life was "personal"-- the example I gave being that she found him "unattractive." (Nothing whatever was said about her opinion of the human race, or its abstract value, except what can be assumed from the fact that she herself had been glad to be alive, and human.)any human act, it is surely applicable to one in which, because she finds the man, for example, too dark-skinned for her taste, or too whatever- is- her- personal- turn-off, this person decides to indulge her specialness at the cost of the potential for a future existence of millions of humans who could experience over millions of years the pleasures she herself had enjoyed with nary a demur. contrary opinions would be expressed because it would be un-PC to express them rather than because they are not out there.only three or four people who HAVE opinions on this matter, just happen to have the opinion that it's better to allow all of humanity to perish than to have one woman who thought human life was a pleasure, when it was hers, be labeled "selfish" or "sociopathic" for refusing to have sex with... ... a man who didn't turn her on. She doesn't find him attractive. She likes white dudes. So you say fine, c'est la vie, c'est la self-determination, goodbye for eternity to human pleasure, joy, sex, love, music, poetry, altruism, beauty, books, devotion, skill, reason, tenderness, sacrifice, truth, courage....
