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To: one_less who wrote (78060)	4/14/2000 3:58:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Since, different cultures can discover "ladder" then we don't worry about who first came up with the concept and taught everybody else. The idea is out there in the universe or cave where ideas come from or whatever, but its standing on its own as an idea. I think you're missing my point. I don't think anybody came up with these ideas first, and taught everybody else, and I certainly don't think concepts like "ladder", "fire", "wheel", "blade", etc. exist in any external form. People discover these things by experimenting and learning. Their experiments lead them in similar directions because the basic principles of physics and engineering that govern climbing, heating, rolling, and cutting are the same, not because they are tapping into some sort of independent "idea bank". Ideas don't come from a cave. They come from experimentation, observation, and thought. Similarly, the underlying drives that govern human behaviour are the same anywhere, so that human experiments in social living tend to come up with similar principles for governing social situations. We may have missed contact on the sex discussion. I was never discussing whether sex per se is "good" or "bad". The problem of governing sexual relations has always been an intensely practical one, simply because male humans, like practically all male mammals, often compete violently for the privilege of passing on their genetic material. There are few more maladaptive behaviours in a social species than intragroup conflict, and there are few more common causes of intragroup conflict in human social groups than sex. Almost all human societies regulate sexual behaviour in some way, because they have found that such regulation is essential to maintaining social harmony. They didn't pull that notion out of some sort of idea bank, they learned it by observing and reacting.