r/comics • u/vesmir_neasi • Jul 28 '26

OC This could be us, but

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I don’t need much. I want eat sweets without getting fat, I want to feel wanted and I want equal rights. Is it much to ask?

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u/FrostyEnvironment902 Jul 29 '26

Actually the point would be procreation.

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u/Hairy_Cube Jul 29 '26

Biologically and evolutionarily yeah, but socially we have developed different purposes for it

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u/FrostyEnvironment902 Jul 29 '26

I agree. But if we had to point at the POINT of it. I would never point to "socially"

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u/PhilospohicalZ0mb1e Jul 29 '26

Why should the telos relate to biological incentive?

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u/FrostyEnvironment902 Jul 29 '26

I can't give you a good reason other than.

Why would it ever point to anything but the survival of self and the assurance of Continuity of the species.

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u/PhilospohicalZ0mb1e Jul 29 '26

I dunno, because of how humans experience meaning? All of the sex I’ve had has been under precautions not to get someone pregnant. Either I was acting entirely without purpose, or there was a purpose other than procreation.

I will float to you that humans have instinct but they also have cognition. If I have sex someone that I love, it comes from the biological attraction I feel toward them (or arousal, more precisely) but there is also a conscious process of actually choosing to have sex. The intentional aspect is not motivated by instinct but by emotion, in this case love. I haven’t really had a lot of casual sex, but on the rare occasion I’m not in love with the person I’m sleeping with, there’s still an aspect of deepening connection.

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u/FrostyEnvironment902 Jul 29 '26

It's hard to answer, it really boils down to its meaningless and meaningful all depending on individuals and their perspectives

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u/PhilospohicalZ0mb1e Jul 29 '26

In my opinion the experience of finding meaning something is an end, not a means