Here are the layers of human progression that ultimately cause much of the social conflict we see today:
Our preferences evolve faster than our morals.
Our morals evolve faster than our culture.
Our culture evolves faster than our society.
Our society evolves faster than our biology.
Example: We start off with a preference to abolish slavery. This grows into a moral stance, and eventually a cultural stance. Then we have a Civil War in which society determines that slavery is bad. But our biology still makes us hesitant to trust those who are significantly different than us, and so racism persists.
It's understandable to have a desire for men and women to be equal in all ways. That sure would be nice and fair! Then that expands into a moral stance, and even gains cultural support, but then it runs into conflict with the hard fact that our biology makes men and women different.
Women are inherently disadvantaged in career opportunities because biology makes them the better care-givers for children, and care-giving MUST detract from your career. Men are inherently disadvantaged in sex because nature only requires the best of the men service to all of the women. It's ugly and it's not fair, but most of the social stress we have today can be traced to our moral and cultural desires to escape this unfairness of our biology. Everyone demands fairness, but evolution doesn't give a fuck about fairness.
I want a world where careers and sex are fair and equal, but I don't know how to get there without a gene editor. Until we have that technology, we have to embrace the fact that our biology evolved without any regard to fairness or equality.
Women will never have career equality. Men will never have sexual equality. And if you think one of these is worse than the other, please refer to my previous statement that evolution doesn't give a fuck about fairness.
We can, as a society, try to counter the forces of biology with laws, but that causes a constant tension that is difficult and expensive to maintain.
Our preferences evolve faster than our morals.
Our morals evolve faster than our culture.
Our culture evolves faster than our society.
Our society evolves faster than our biology.
Example: We start off with a preference to abolish slavery. This grows into a moral stance, and eventually a cultural stance. Then we have a Civil War in which society determines that slavery is bad. But our biology still makes us hesitant to trust those who are significantly different than us, and so racism persists.
It's understandable to have a desire for men and women to be equal in all ways. That sure would be nice and fair! Then that expands into a moral stance, and even gains cultural support, but then it runs into conflict with the hard fact that our biology makes men and women different.
Women are inherently disadvantaged in career opportunities because biology makes them the better care-givers for children, and care-giving MUST detract from your career. Men are inherently disadvantaged in sex because nature only requires the best of the men service to all of the women. It's ugly and it's not fair, but most of the social stress we have today can be traced to our moral and cultural desires to escape this unfairness of our biology. Everyone demands fairness, but evolution doesn't give a fuck about fairness.
I want a world where careers and sex are fair and equal, but I don't know how to get there without a gene editor. Until we have that technology, we have to embrace the fact that our biology evolved without any regard to fairness or equality.
Women will never have career equality. Men will never have sexual equality. And if you think one of these is worse than the other, please refer to my previous statement that evolution doesn't give a fuck about fairness.
We can, as a society, try to counter the forces of biology with laws, but that causes a constant tension that is difficult and expensive to maintain.
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