[ SECRET POST #4424 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4424 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That it's an imperative on the species level does not mean that it's an imperative on the individual level, which is what we're talking about here.

[(Anonymous)]

Secret op did not say it’s imperative on the individual level, just that it was a biological imperative and that is why people do change their minds m.

[(Anonymous)]

I get the point you're making about the evolutionary instincts and shit (although I would be more reserved about how strong the connection is between evolutionary incentive & individual human choices even then).

But I don't think there's any point where it's correct to talk about it as a biological imperative on the individual level - which is the way that OP was talking about it. Because, one, it's factually incorrect, and two, it also makes it seem... uh... I mean, it seems to me that, once you talk about it being an imperative on the individual level, you're going to have a hard time avoiding the conclusion that someone not fulfilling that imperative is dysfunctional in some sense.

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I do feel out is kinda a biological imperative on an individual level, though. I do not intend to have kids. But, at 40, I can very much feel a "biological clock" telling me I really need to have a baby. I'm a person, so I'm more than my biology and can tell my biological clock to shut the fuck up, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Even at that, I don't think "imperative" would be a correct word to use

[(Anonymous)]

That's not a biological imperative. It's a social imperative. Women are expected to have children so when you start to hit a certain age and you haven't had kids yet, you think you have some bio clock that you can sense but it's really just internalized social pressure.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really? Do you think having kids is only a social drive? There is a biological urge many but not all people (not just women) have to reproduce. I can see disliking the phrasing of imperative but acting like the urge to have children is just social pressure is patently false.

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Eh I'd go with 'impulse' or something. Some people have it, some people don't at all, for some people it's overwhelming, for others it's there but ignorable

[(Anonymous)]

You having it doesn't mean others have it tho.