guru1000 said:
To all the men who believe morality is a sham and have their tighties in a bunch,
You all have little success with women and attempt to compensate your deficiencies with the "AMORAL" buffer. You can only justify your perpetual failure with women by screaming injustice. Just as pathetic as the poor man who justifies how the wealthy are immoral, you guys are the poor men of the community.
Man up and accept your rejections to become better men, not victims of a nature controlled society. I doubt any of you men have had much success if you truly believe that convictions will always succumb to nature. And the married "evolutionary psychologist" aka wine distributor who boasts about his Chrysler leading the pack speaks volumes.
Guru lays down the law, once again. It's important to note the difference between
immoral (conflicting with held moral principles), and
amoral (neither moral nor immoral). You might view a woman's behavior as immoral, but in her mind she may not even have a moral tenet that governs such behavior. She is just acting according to her impulses. This is how and why you qualify, rigorously.
I am not part of the club that believes convictions will always bend under natural imperatives. I think it is vitally important for a Man to have his
own morality, and to hold his convictions for his chosen long-term girlfriend, wife, or whatever.
Non-fvcking-negotiables. If you don't have some, don't be surprised if you get a lot of sh!t you don't like.
Morality is not a sham. It is a set of personal convictions. Guys see the contradictions in people's moral codes and make the incorrect conclusion that all morality is is a social construct with the purpose of serving society. And to some extent, it is. But my morality is still going to differ from someone else's, or even society's collective benchmarks. I, for example, don't think taking steroids is immoral, or even unethical in many cases. But most of society does. Now I didn't create this belief just so I could take roids guilt-free, but because I examined it critically and deemed that steroid use is someone's personal prerogative and should not be regulated. But that's just
my morality, and I'm not going to impose it on folks who think steroids are always wrong.
Str8up said:
What they fail to account for is that a "good" girl is nothing more than a chick who is conditioned to behave against her innate drives and motivations. Morality is a social construct designed to temper NATURAL behaviors, not the other way around. It's merely a "shell" that is wrapped around the person to make people behave in a way that benefits society moreso than the individual.
But in benefiting society it does benefit the individual. Your statement seems to imply that NATURAL behaviors are by definition undesirable, or detrimental to a population as a whole; which is not always true. In teaching a child right and wrong (most people have a similar structure of what is right and wrong), you not only benefit the child by showing him the best way to live with others, but you benefit everyone else by ensuring your kid doesn't grow up to be a d0uchebag.
Children, naturally, are selfish, whiny, and emotional. But they can also be naturally sweet, generous, and very loving. They will reflect what they see in their parents, and what their parents choose to discipline or not discipline them for. Personally I think this is where someone's concept of morality starts. Now while most of us have a sound concept of what is right and wrong, my morality is going to be slightly different from other guys in my culture, and probably radically different from guys in Muslim cultures, for example. Some radical Muslims wholeheartedly believe it is not only proper but GODLY to beat their wife for certain offenses.
Every parent has the right to teach their children what they believe is moral and just. Where I think people can cross the line is when they try to ascribe THEIR morality to others outside of family. We all do it at times, but this is what causes fights, lawsuits, divorces, and even wars. It's tricky because what if someone else's self-proclaimed 'moral' act results in the harm of another who wanted no part in the situation? I think this is when 'righteous morality' becomes evil---when others are being subject to unwarranted harm as a direct result of another's perceived moral action.
But I digress....
To support what GURU said, one of the most reliable ways to predict how a woman will treat you is to look at her parents and the dynamics of her family interaction. I can attest to this from A-1 personal experience. Women who come from dysfunctional family backgrounds will almost without fail bring those dysfunctional behaviors and mechanisms into a relationship. In fact I am so sure of this I would almost put a
100% guarantee on it. If her parents didn't communicate respectfully and gave her the silent treatment, guess what you're in store for?? If her mother cheated on her father repeatedly, guess what you can expect?? It always pays to get to know a girl's family and how she feels about them before going too far down the LTR road.