by Kylon » Thu 20 Jul 2006, 02:54:31
Hmmm, in order to end the cycle of dating jerk offs we must define, and understand the problem.
Here is my belief-
When people are immature(around high school age) the qualities selected for in a mate tend to be that of primal qualities, which includes all the bad qualities we don't want in people.
Girls end up dating these guys, getting pregnant, and then they are forced together.
Then daughter grows up with the positive association of her jerk off dad, and so chooses another jerk off.
Thus, the cycle continues.
This isn't necessarily restricted to high school, this can extend to any period of time, and depends on how fast the woman matures emotionally.
The bad part about this is that it causes the people who do this to have an evolutionary advantage, due to the fact that younger women have higher fertility, and the jerk offs are the ones who are most likely to impregnate them in their youth.
Also, when people are immature, they don't fully realize the difficulty in raising a child, the amount of resources it takes, and the stress it puts on the person. So they tend to make more of them.
So ultimately, unless the evolutionary problem is addressed with, every generation after the solution is applied will adapt more and more back towards the way things were, until that solution is ineffective.
So the solution is to try to get women to wait before they get pregnant(give them lots of contraception) to prevent them from getting pregnant with just any jerk(perhaps give them a free permanent contraception(until they want to undue it, and then they can have it undone for free)).
Perhaps we could also work on ways of increasing women's fertility, and creating women's co-op child rearing centers. Essentially, a place where women can raise children and pool their collective knowledge and resources into raising the children, so that the quality of the offspring will be much better, because as a group they can delegate different people to collect information on different subjects pertaining to child development(one could focus on emotionally development, and another diet ect...), and a network of these groups could easily develop a fantastic strategy for raising children effectively.
This would decrease the stress load, as if you had a child, and you wanted to go out to a movie, and there was someone there who was trusted(there would have to be some sort of quality control to prevent wackos from joining the center), then you could go out to see a movie, while your friend watched your child, while watching hers, and then you could go off and do whatever you want for a while, then when you came back she could go do whatever she wanted, and watch the children as so forth and so on, reducing the time needed to focus solely on guarding the children.
Another thing would be an increase in the economies of scale of production of certain things like food. If one woman cooked ten meals at a time(which is possible, a common strategy of housewives was to cook four or five things at once, the more you cook, the less work per dish it is to produce), then women could focus on other task.
Essentially the whole center would take advantage of pooled resources, pooled knowledge, specialization, economies of scale, and the fact that this would increase the socialization of children at an earlier age. In fact, the center could be setup to have a sort of homeschool type environment of early education, this idea has all sorts of possibilities.
The only major possible problems I can see-
1) Feminist get a hold of this, and turn it into a recruiting ground for militant feminist who hate men(feminist who want to improve women's equality, without stealing from men directly or indirectly, are okay though). Man hating women are bad. Men and women should complement each other, not try and destroy/compete with one other.
2) Religious Fanatics/Ideologist get a hold of this and turn everybody into a zealot. That would be bad.
3) Mega Corporations take control of this, set this up, and essentially brainwash the next generation to be their willing servants(consumers). Also bad.
4) The Government gets a hold of this/does this, all the children come out praising the government. Extremely bad.
Now if one of the 4 possible disasters didn't happen, then it would be great.
Essentially, what I am proposing is a solution which reduces the stress of child rearing, so that a more emotionaly mature woman could rationally come to the conclusion of having more children, as it wouldn't be 1/2 the stress that it used to be to raise a child, leaving more room for the woman's education, career(that's another thing, the center in a sense would become(perhaps through it's natural evolution and practicality) a nexus of women's issues, and would take care of women's needs).
The fertility problem is still a problem. I can think of a few solutions, but it's late.
Probably post more later.