F3lix are you planning on responding to my post from yesterday?
I'm not sure if you've came across kin selection, natural selection is very complex.
I posted the ants link because the vast majority of ants do not reproduce and it doesn't look like a dead end tactic, they have been around for around a hundred million years.
Mr. Blonde, you were arguing for 'gay genes' as being selectively neutral, can you see that this is extremely unlikely to be the case?
Here's more evidence that the 'gay genes' have been advantageous in the evolutionary landscape. (
Selection coefficient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Females with gay siblings have more offspring.
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female maternal relatives of homosexuals have higher fecundity than female maternal relatives of heterosexuals and that this difference is not found in female paternal relatives.
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Evidence for maternally inherited factors favouring male homosexuality and promoting female fecundity
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The cause of suffering for one person might be a source of joy for another.
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Agreed.
Do we have a right to inflict involuntary suffering on others, and what do we do if there is an irreconcilable difference?