Is everything we do about reproduction?

Question

Is everything we do about reproducing? (on an unconscious level?) Think of it, why do we dress nice, build our social circle, look the best we can (including buying clothes, haircuts/styles, tanning, or whatever)? Why do we want good jobs that give us nice items that lead to increased social value? To attract the opposite s*x. Why do you go to college? To get a good job. Why get a good job? Better pay. Better pay means you can support a family and have better things for the family. Why do we like the opposite s*x? We like s*x. Why do we like s*x? It is how the species is furthered along. Why do we go on dates? To screen for a potential mate. Why do we like to go out to social gatherings? To meet a potential mate. I don't like kids, I can't stand em, and I know having one will change my life probably for the worst and would ruin me financially. Having kids is not for me...but I have these odd fantasies sometimes of knocking a girl up. Of not wearing a rubber and going all inside of her. Of course when the horniness wears off, I know that its stupid to think like that, but the drive is so powerful. I am thinking of getting a vasectomy, and weading my genes out, it won't favor evolution, but it would probably be for the best. That is an example of nature over riding logic.

It just seems like if you deconstruct everything we do, it all goes to the basic premise of reproducing, like thats all we are here for. Multiply multiply, multiply.

Answer 1

yep, pretty much. :O

Answer 2

Freud believed that, but Freud was a cocaine addict and based much of his theory on evaluations of his own motives.

Freud also believed that

  All men secretly wanted to have s*x with their mothers (Oedipus Complex).

All women secretly hated their fathers (Electra Complex)

All women secretly wish they were men (p***s envy)

Everyone is genetically predisposed to a specific profession. ( if your father was a butcher, then you would eventually choose a profession that required the use of a blade, such as a butcher surgeon or Jack the ripper.)

Freud was one sick puppy.

Answer 3

...it is our basic programming...now mull that philosophical question around for awhile..

Answer 4

I've also thought about that and have come to the same conclusion. I guess getting a good job would make for an easier life just for yourself, but one person needs only so much money. Which leads to providing for more people which would lead to reproduction. It could be for the sake of respect as well.

Answer 5

No.

People get vasectomies, priests and monks take vows of celibacy.

And then there are castrated people who do many of the things you and me do every day, (get a job, buy nice clothes, tan, etc.), and why?

Obviously not to reproduce. They do it because human beings are social creatures. They do it because they want to be accepted and respected by their peers. This is a much stronger guiding force than reproduction.

Answer 6

Yes we are animals and our sole purpose is to continue our genetic traits.

Answer 7

No. You assume that people have the same mindset as you. Wrong. Get over your generalization and you'll see that there's more to being human than multiplying.

Answer 8

Maybe in your head it seems that way but not me baby. I am 37, I have no interest in what anyone including a man thinks of me. I am only and solely interested in what I think of me. Everything I do is for me. I do not have children and have never wanted them and never will.

For me life is about living and fulfilling my own wants and needs.  I am responsible for me and my life and no one else. Reproduction is not even in my mindset. The end.

Answer 9

goodness, i have thought about the same exact things ! i have come to the same exact conclusions in my mind. and yea...reall crazy when you think about it!