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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

You've claimed that I suggested I'm not able to be influenced by anything external on any subject (outright lie) and then referred to me as arrogant and egotistical based on said lie.

How do you expect to engage anyone when doing things like that?

You also claim you know how I think better than I do. How does that even make any sense. You don't know me.

I can throw out any statement I choose and accept or defend those statements as I see fit, engaging someone who goes the direction you do seems to be a waste of time given the posts you've come back with.

Okay, well let me go by your original posts and give you an idea of what I thought you meant, and then you can correct me. I definitely could've approached it better originally.

The reality is as simple as Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the most fit. All things equal I'm going to mate with the most physically suitable mate, that's what I'm attracted to, to suggest otherwise is being ignorant (and it goes for both sexes)

See, to me it sounds like you're suggesting that there are certain physical qualities that determine if someone is an objectively suitable mate. My argument was that people you find attractive are not inherently more suitable mates on the Darwinian level you're claiming than people you don't find attractive. In fact there is some evidence that this is not true, such as the increasing number of births via C-section. We are social creatures, and at some level of subconscious thinking we're going to be influenced by what the society around is perpetuating as attractive qualities.

Also, I'd suggest that your argument is highly heteronormative, in that it doesn't really leave room to explain physical attraction between homosexuals.

You're delusional if you or anyone else claim they can know what I think better than I do.

No one was claiming to know what you think better than you do, but there are entire professional, scientific, and academic fields dedicated to telling us why we think the way we do, and my point was that it's a ridiculous to claim to know better than people who have dedicated their lives to this type of work, but I definitely should've phrased it better.

Yeah - because everyone in the world thinks the way you think they do.

I doubt it, but I don't think everyone is as unique from each other as we'd like to believe we are.