Ghatanathoah comments on How to Avoid the Conflict Between Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ghatanathoah 14 December 2012 10:50:58AM 0 points [-]

Your comment is mostly correct, except this is a total stawman of Roissy's position.

I was under the impression that Roissy's position was:

  1. People want to spread their genes.
  2. People want to choose who they spread their genes with through sexual reproduction in order to increase the odds that the other person's genes will be good.
  3. Rape is bad because if it successfully impregnates the victim it causes them to spread genes that they don't want to spread.
  4. Cuckoldry also results in an individual spreading genes they don't want to spread.
  5. Therefore, cuckoldry is as bad as rape.

Have I gotten this incorrect in some fashion?

Now, of course I don't deny that cuckoldry is a truly awful thing to do to someone. But that particular chain of reasoning as to why it is awful is really, really bad.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 December 2012 08:48:51PM 5 points [-]

I haven't read Roissy, but Robin Hanson's argument for why cuckoldry is as bad as rape was based on a survey of men showing that most would rather be raped than cuckolded.

Furthermore, the fact that Roissy isn't interested in having children shows that he's not confusing evolution's motives with those of humans.

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