<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am not a big expert on evolution - but (yeah, there's a but here) it seems that the only stress is on the number of offspring. That might be the case for most species, but for ours we need to bring the quality of the offspring into consideration. Higher quality people can have much greater impact on the world. For sheer numbers, we already have far too many people, so our species survival is assured (compared to other ones, that is - of course our survival may endanger all the rest if we don't tone down the aggression).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:04 PM, SR Ballard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well, it might be rational to use the condom from the gene's point of view if the offspring which are produced, though fewer, have a higher chance of producing offspring. <div><br></div><div>We'll know in a few hundred years. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:16 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Keith Henson </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>Is it rational to die for your tribe? Not from the individual's viewpoint! But it is from the viewpoint of the genes</i></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4">Yes but it can work the other way too. Is it rational to use a condom? Not from the genes viewpoint but it is from the individuals viewpoint.</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div><br></font><div> </div></div></div>
<br></div></div><span class="">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
<br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-<wbr>chat</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>