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Originally Posted by SebC
Sex with a condom doesn't help you pass on your genes either, but you still get pleasure out of it because of genetic conditioning.
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come up with a better analogy and we'll have a discussion. As a fully self-aware being I could easily break genetic conditioning that doesn't actually benefit me. By the way, the behaviorist approach that you are proposing was generally considered invalid by the end of the 60's and human behavior is much more complex than pure survivalism. There are countless things humans do that are counterproductive to our survival that this viewpoint is not valid in psychological study, I would know. Point being doing one thing because of genetics does not mean we are incapable of behaving in a way that our genes would not generally dictate.