I wasn’t making any factual claims as such, I was merely showing that your use of your analogy was very flawed by demonstrating a better alignment of the elements, which in fact says the exact opposite of what you misconstrued the analogy as saying. If what you now say about people really wanting nerve stimulation is true that just means your analogy was beside the point in the first place, at least for those people. In no way can you reasonably maintain that people really want to procreate in the same way the child really wants the donut.
Once again, which people? You are not talking about the millions of people who go to fertility clinics, presumably. Those people apparently genuinely want to procreate.
Any sort. Regardless of what the people actually “really want”, a case where someone’s desire for procreation maps unto a child’s wish for a doughnut in any illuminating way seems extremely implausible, because even in cases where it’s clear that this desire exists it seems to be a different kind of want. More like a child wanting to grow up, say.
Foremost about the kind of people in the context of my first comment on this issue of course, those who (try to) have sex.
I think you must have some kind of different desire classification scheme from me. From my perspective, doughnuts and babies are both things which (some) people want.
There are some people who are more interested in sex than in babies. There are also some people who are more interested in babies than sex. Men are more likely to be found in the former category, while women are more likely to be found in the latter one.
Which people? Certainly Cypher tells a different story. He prefers the direct nerve stimulation to real-world experiences.
I wasn’t making any factual claims as such, I was merely showing that your use of your analogy was very flawed by demonstrating a better alignment of the elements, which in fact says the exact opposite of what you misconstrued the analogy as saying. If what you now say about people really wanting nerve stimulation is true that just means your analogy was beside the point in the first place, at least for those people. In no way can you reasonably maintain that people really want to procreate in the same way the child really wants the donut.
Once again, which people? You are not talking about the millions of people who go to fertility clinics, presumably. Those people apparently genuinely want to procreate.
Any sort. Regardless of what the people actually “really want”, a case where someone’s desire for procreation maps unto a child’s wish for a doughnut in any illuminating way seems extremely implausible, because even in cases where it’s clear that this desire exists it seems to be a different kind of want. More like a child wanting to grow up, say.
Foremost about the kind of people in the context of my first comment on this issue of course, those who (try to) have sex.
I think you must have some kind of different desire classification scheme from me. From my perspective, doughnuts and babies are both things which (some) people want.
There are some people who are more interested in sex than in babies. There are also some people who are more interested in babies than sex. Men are more likely to be found in the former category, while women are more likely to be found in the latter one.
Yeah, I was talking to Cypher the other day, and that’s what he told me.
Many drug addicts seem to share Cypher’s perspective on this issue. They want the pleasure, and aren’t too picky about where it comes from.