Everything We Do In Life Is To Mate With The Best Mate Possible

Life IS unsustainable if there are too many people... so population control via self correction doesn't seem too far-fetched. Homosexual penguins raise offspring that lose their parents (or adopt an abandoned female's egg) and some species of fish change their sex based on population levels.

I like eating chips but it never got me laid

Then explain why Kanye chose Kim.

Naa, that's not how evolution works. It works on an individual basis, not whats best for the group. We are done evolving and we will just keep growing in population until we reach our carrying capacity.

Everybody knows it’s you, jamin.

Use your real name or, better yet, GTFO of here.

Psychosexual Evolutionary Biologist wrote:

School, careers, running, hobbies all to attract a mate and reproduce the best possible offspring.

Why are many young people these days rejecting this and not getting married or having kids?

Are humans overpopulated and self correcting? In other species that get overpopulated, homosexual individuals increase dramatically.

With things like Instagram, Tinder/Bumble, Snapchat, only the top 20% (if not top 10%) of guys are able to get the girls.

Girls want to screw the top tier guys, in hope of getting in a relationship with them. They never will. They'll be 33 and then start going for the nicer guy who was like a 7.

Guys are pushed by societal expectations to sleep around and get notches. When in reality, one night stands are rarely that good.

Because of the increased competition, guys who have a little gay in them are going full gay, to get all the deviant energy in them out.

I wonder why people choose to post things that are as stupid as this ^ .

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A lot more guys will be going gay in the future because there are just too many dudes. There hasn't been a world war in 70 yrs...so unless there's another world war the unbalanced ratio of men to womrn will just get worse. Competition will be fierce - average looking women will be able to get the best looking & best built guys. Average looking dudes will get nothing and be left with the difficult choice of being without female companionship or going gay.

One hope for us average looking dudes would be sex dolls. If the industry could improve technology and make more lifelike dolls with some level of artificial intelligence that would be a game changer! Imagine picking out a dream doll of your fantasies; gorgeous looks, hot body, sexy voice - all at your disposal.

AI sex dolls...now that's the ticket! ??

You seem to be rejecting nature/evolution, as well. You indicate that the best strategy, from a perspective of propagating one's genes, is to attract a mate and reproduce. A singular mate? No, especially for males; it pays to be promiscuous and even a little rapey.

However, our societal values do not need to celebrate the cruel indifference and happenstance of nature/evolution. At our best (which is exceedingly rare, and increasingly more rare as a proportion of the population), as glorified apes, we suppress our base impulses and try to aspire towards something that honors those qualities we pretend to admire (i.e., we call ourselves Homo sapiens, the wise man): intelligence (never-mind the rampant anti-intellectualism), curiosity (never-mind the silos of group-think echo-chambers), and knowledge (never-mind the disdain for expertise among the unwashed masses). It is relatively easy to have a biological child, but for most, nearly impossible to birth an original idea.

We hold up people like Newton (even though by all accounts he was a jerkface) because they had original ideas. Having kids? Ok, here's a cookie.

Doclove wrote:

I like eating chips but it never got me laid

That's because your a fat old chav. You need some TV exposure.

Yeah, I spend a good amount of my day at work and just in general reading quality articles on the internet, Financial Times and their high quality comments, and reddit-style sites with great discourse like HackerNews. The more I learn about the world, most people just follow others. They have barely any self-thinking ability. The more you carve your own path, good or bad, the more other people sort of respect you. Because you're out there living a life that only you could create. If you create a new type of electronic song, play guitar in a unique way, run fast in a unique way (sit and kick, front run), then people take note and will be more apt to follow you.

Sounds like OP is down in the dumps about Valentines day.

U ain't alone bro

Interesting hypothesis for a forum dedicated to a pursuit that makes men skinnier, weaker, more tired, lower testosterone, autistic-spectrumed and socially awkward.

I forgot...beta.

Psychosexual Evolutionary Biologist wrote:

School, careers, running, hobbies all to attract a mate and reproduce the best possible offspring.

Why are many young people these days rejecting this and not getting married or having kids?

Because financial independence by 35 is awesome.

The best mate possible is a male preying mantis.

There's an underlying truth to this that influences human behavior, but you are too reductionist.

It's like saying that everything people eat is to get the best nutrition possible. People obviously eat to obtain nutrition but humans build a lot of additional behavior on top of the underlying need that doesn't necessarily contribute to getting the best nutrition possible.