@joshua 1 9 Well . . . I see that you could mean that ones suppose that pleasure chemicals encourage and reward various sex partners, in order to assure that there is genetic diversity. And ones have found that voles with these chemicals elevated have bonded for having offspring, while those pleasure chemies were down during other times. And . . . "therefore" . . . it could be like this, with humans. In case this is what you are offering >
This could mean that humans are desperate for pleasure, and do not necessarily mate in order to responsibly bring up children. And we do see how ones have not brought up their children well, and having quantity of children has not necessarily meant having quality.
So, if it were true that chemies cause mating . . . this would be an unthinking drive, resulting in maybe diversity of genes, but not quality of character. And we are seeing what is happening to a number of children, today, who do not have the character to say no to drug pleasure. A new kind of desperation for pleasure is not exactly helping to increase the population, Joshua.
I can see that the desperation for sexual pleasure has helped to produce the self-killing pleasure-seeking people we see now. So, if pleasure chemies are driving the genetic diversity, they might not be helping to produce people with character of love, for bringing up children who are strong and healthy and sound in real love. This would mean you are talking about a dead-end process, not survival of the fittest.
But which comes first . . . the pleasure desire or the pleasure chemicals? I think a person has to have the desperation for pleasure, in order for the person to go along with seeking the chemical pleasure. And where does this desire with its desperation come from? I would say, not from a beneficial selection process, as I might have helped to point out, above.
But there is "the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience", our Apostle Paul does say, in Ephesians 2:2. Satan's spirit has dictatorial emotions and drives which are dominating and controlling. Such emotions can work very hard to drive people to do things for the reason of physical bodily pleasure. This desire and tendency is from a spiritual source. And it certainly is not producing people who are fit in love.
And pleasure chemicals can not decide and control how we are, at the spiritual source of our desires. But we can choose to go along with the pleasure signals and sensations of our bodies. But, instead, we need to be strong and good examples for our children, so they do not become victims of desperation for inferior pleasures. We can be feeding on our Father's love with each other, as family
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instead of isolating ourselves with certain pleasures and ones we use for what we want.