It is not my claim that the entire population of the world has a clinically diagnosable anxiety disorder. That would be crazy (and given how ‘disorder’ is used, only a hop and a step away from outright oxymoronic).
I do maintain the things that I have actually stated.
“Far more than either current reproductive maximisation incentives or our own practical hedonistic interests would assign.”
Who’s ‘we’ here anyway? Mankind? I’m sure >95% can get beaten up for hitting on strangers. 5% ? There’s still the status loss from rejection.
It is not my claim that the entire population of the world has a clinically diagnosable anxiety disorder. That would be crazy (and given how ‘disorder’ is used, only a hop and a step away from outright oxymoronic).
I do maintain the things that I have actually stated.
Who’s ‘we’ here anyway? Mankind? I’m sure >95% can get beaten up for hitting on strangers. 5% ? There’s still the status loss from rejection.