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14142598 No.14142598 [Reply] [Original]

Almost all human social behavior and neurosis can be explained by an unconscious or conscious fear of death.

This includes but is not limited to overeating, addiction, wealth hoarding, child rearing, legacy creation, political arguments, playing video games, watching tv, watching the news, and so on.

>> No.14142608

>>14142598
Yes

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>>14142598
if we were immortal, would we stop displaying compulsive behaviors, engaging in politics, entertaining ourselves, etc.?

>> No.14142635

>>14142598
You can shit on the specifics of evopsych if you like but ideas like 'we want sex and to care for children innately because humans who want those things due to genetic programming are more likely to have their children prosper' are so hard to argue against that you have to deny evolution either generally or specifically wrt humans to get out of it.

Saying that all these behaviors are the result of a desire to escape thinking about mortality is a)totally without any evidence, and b)rather bizarre since humans share many of these traits with countless other animals who almost certainly have no concept of mortality.