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To: George S. Montgomery who wrote (78062)	4/14/2000 7:20:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I never argued that there are no innate characteristics, only that morality is not among them. Our "moral" regulation (or codification, if you prefer) of the human sex drives arises from a conflict between the male urge to screw all available females and keep all other males away from them, thus ensuring widest possible distribution of genetic material, and the requirements of the social group, which could not possibly function if the males were constantly fighting over the females. An additional complication, of course, is that human females are more of less perpetually in heat, so the conflict would not be confined to a single mating season. The solution to the conflict has followed a pretty consistent theme, with variations: males are paired off with one or more females; competition takes place before the pairing stage, but pairs once established are respected. It didn't always work, of course. It still doesn't. I suspect that all of our moral laws can be traced back to an effort to resolve a conflict between individual instinctive drives and the requirements of the social group. I see no reason to suspect that any of these solutions sprang full-blown out of the aether: it is much more reasonable to suppose that they evolved over time.