Try to stay with me, and tell me if you could answer the question at the end.
- All living things reproduce either sexually or asexually.
- Humans are living things.
- In the animal kingdom, when given the chance during adulthood, male species will most often mate with their female counterparts.
- Humans are animals.
- Humans would like to differentiate themselves from "inferior" species based on their own reasoning.
- All living things are created selfish.
- Selfish is seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.
- Selfish things want to be on top.
- Two objects cannot occupy the same space.
- When one thing is on top, the other is placed lower than the top.
- Humans show signs of being selfish.
- Humans are selfish.
- Humans want to believe they are not like their animal counterparts.
- Humans are biologically wired to strive for reproductive success.
- Reproductive success requires sexual intercourse.
- Sex outside of marriage is looked down upon in society.
- People who are sexually active outside of marriage feel guilt.
- Guilt happens when someone betrays one's conscience.
- To betray your conscience, you must do something you are not supposed to do.
- People are supposed to have sex to achieve reproductive success.
- Sex feels great.
- People want to feel great.
- Sex outside of marriage is sex out bounds.
- Marriage, as a social construction, exists to set boundaries.
- Boundaries exist to bring about order.
- Boundaries are set by things that seek to place order.
- Entropy is the ubiquitous natural tendency for all things to be in disorder.
- Things are comfortable being disordered.
- It takes a lot of energy and resources to bring around order.
- Boundaries are made in one's mind and then externalized.
- The human mind also prefers to live in order even if it takes effort.
- The amount of effort is correlated to the amount of desire to achieve something.
- The mind sometimes conditions humans to act against certain boundaries.
- Humans act out of bounds when boundaries are not clearly understood since there are so many out there.
- Humans learn that an ordered life is a good life.
- Humans have an idea of what they want.
- Humans have an idea of what they need.
- Humans place different emphasis on long and short term wants and needs.
- There is a balance between what we want and what we need.
- We value that balance, but place different emphasis at different times.
- We disregard what we need when we are close to achieving what we desperately want.
- We disregard what we want when we are close to getting what we need.
- Importance is the measurement of significance.
- We want to make significant decisions.
- Significant decisions are driven when we find the appropriate balance between "want and need".
- Humans are imperfect.
- Humans have a good idea of what they want, but they don't always understand what they need.
- Humans want to understand what they need.
- Humans look to understand what they need to make proper decisions that will bring about great positive impact in their lives through religion, ethnic morals, core family values, and doctrinal books.
- Humans tend to be too lazy to think about the following questions and the (my) premises that led to formulating it.
Where do you look for what you need? What do you need? Why?
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