The Girardian conclusion, and general approach of this text make sense. But the strategy that is best is forgiving 2 tits for tat, or something like that, worth emphasizing. Also it seems you are putting some moral value in long term mating that doesn’t necessarily reflect our emotional systems or our evolutionary drives. Short tem mating is very common and seen in most societies where there’s enough resources to go around and enough intersexual geographical proximity. Recently there are more and stronger arguments emerging against female short term strategies. But it would be a far cry to claim that we already know decisively that the expected value for a female of short terming is necessarily negative. It may depend on fetal androgens, and it may be that the measurements made so far took biased samples to calculate the cost of female promiscuity. In the case of males, as far as I know, there is literally no data associating short terming with long term QALY loss, none. But I’d be happy to be corrected. Notice also that the moral question is always about the sex you are not. If you are female, and data says it doesn’t affect males, then you are free to do whatever. If you are male, and the data says short terming females become long term unhappy, then the moral responsibility for that falls on you, specially if there’s information assymetry.
The Girardian conclusion, and general approach of this text make sense.
But the strategy that is best is forgiving 2 tits for tat, or something like that, worth emphasizing.
Also it seems you are putting some moral value in long term mating that doesn’t necessarily reflect our emotional systems or our evolutionary drives. Short tem mating is very common and seen in most societies where there’s enough resources to go around and enough intersexual geographical proximity. Recently there are more and stronger arguments emerging against female short term strategies. But it would be a far cry to claim that we already know decisively that the expected value for a female of short terming is necessarily negative. It may depend on fetal androgens, and it may be that the measurements made so far took biased samples to calculate the cost of female promiscuity. In the case of males, as far as I know, there is literally no data associating short terming with long term QALY loss, none. But I’d be happy to be corrected.
Notice also that the moral question is always about the sex you are not. If you are female, and data says it doesn’t affect males, then you are free to do whatever. If you are male, and the data says short terming females become long term unhappy, then the moral responsibility for that falls on you, specially if there’s information assymetry.