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Well Jani if it's "silly" then how much derision and mockery DO you
have to heap on something before we can assume that you think it's a
bad system?!
Do you think there should be no social mechanisms in place to ensure
and/or to encourage men's knowledge of paternity?
Plainavy
If you have to enslave women and make them property to ensure paternityws-text.cableinet.net>...
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This is a bad thing --> how?
I didn't say it was bad, or good for that matter. I said it was directly
connected to the concept of paternity and inheritance rights.
You are correct, you did not say if it was good or bad. But you did use
the word "consequence" which usually has a negative connotation. Now i see
you did not mean the word consequence with a negative connotation.
But my question is still a valid one. How is reserving sexual activity to
one's husband a bad thing? Especially since women in general desire
monogamy.
Some women are monogamous, some are not. And sexual exclusivity in
relationships is a matter for the individuals concerned.
[...]Where did "paternity and inheritance rights" come from?
It's a consequence of reserving sexual activity to one's husband.connected to the concept of paternity and inheritance rights.
the word "consequence" which usually has a negative connotation. Now i see
you did not mean the word consequence with a negative connotation.
But my question is still a valid one. How is reserving sexual activity to
one's husband a bad thing? Especially since women in general desire
monogamy.
relationships is a matter for the individuals concerned.
If
inheritance is through the male line, you have to have some societal
inheritance is through the male line, you have to have some societal
which prevents women having sex with anyone else. It's a silly
system, really, since women know for certain whether a child is
theirs or not, whereas men have to go to all sorts of lengths to
ensure it.
system, really, since women know for certain whether a child is
theirs or not, whereas men have to go to all sorts of lengths to
ensure it.
have to heap on something before we can assume that you think it's a
bad system?!
Do you think there should be no social mechanisms in place to ensure
and/or to encourage men's knowledge of paternity?
Plainavy
then its to high a price.
In this day and age a simple test will soon prove who the father is.
some distance from encouraging and/or ensuring paternity knowledge.
Castigating all social mechanisms that help ensure that knowledge as
amounting to nothing more than slavery is ludicrous. Chastity belts
and chains are one extreme but a variety of social stigmas and
penalties against cheating on spouses are something else.
Even if paternity tests were 100% accurate (and they appear to be
close to that IF you go through the right, legitimate channels,
there's the little matter of the woman lying to the man and the man
needing to wonder if his wife has done something terrible in the first
place; and the govt, as was proposed in the UK not long ago, may
decide at anytime that paternity testing is inconvenient and
detrimental to social and family stability because too many (!) women
cuckold their husbands. When the man gets suspicious that the kid(s)
may not be his and he wants a test, the govt., proposed that he be
banned from doing it or could only do it with permission from the
woman. So much for equal rights.
Clearly there is reason to doubt a sizable portion of women's fidelity
in a matter where men are peculiarly vulnerable to terrible, widely
repercusive fraud:
"There is plenty of scope for suspicion. Robin Baker, an
academic-turned-author, reviewed the available data a few years ago
and estimated that as many as 10% of children may not have been sired
by their supposed fathers. If the figure really is that high, a lot of
hitherto stable relationships are likely to end acrimoniously, and the
taxpayer will have to pick up the bill for yet more children.
That's why there was talk, in the run-up to the publication of the
genetics white paper, of forbidding suspicious men from doing this
without the mother's consent. In the event, the government decided
against it, and opted merely to propose banning taking unauthorised
DNA samples." ("Is you is or is you ain't my baby?" Jun 26th 2003 .
The Economist.) Reported at
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/cat_evolutionary_psychology.html.
On variability of testing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1241276.stm
See too on social destructiveness of paternity testing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3023513.stm
Women don't have any trouble recognizing their own children..
Your point?Plainavy