Such pessimism is dangerously close to fatalism, and wrong for the same reasons. Just as we have reasons to contemplate our choices despite their inevitability, we have reason to fight our bad urges even under the (weaker!) influence of genetics.
And then there’s the fact that societies with stronger norms against infidelity had less of it, suggesting that men “had the willpower all along!”
Such pessimism is dangerously close to fatalism, and wrong for the same reasons. Just as we have reasons to contemplate our choices despite their inevitability, we have reason to fight our bad urges even under the (weaker!) influence of genetics.
And then there’s the fact that societies with stronger norms against infidelity had less of it, suggesting that men “had the willpower all along!”