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Originally Posted by reverie
..jumping in.
Once upon a time hundreds of thousands of years ago, it was very important to our evolutionary process that we reproduced to keep our biology and species going, so it could evolve. We had to also fight various environmental factors much harder (other animals, weather, diseases etc).
Fast forward through evolution to our current year, such things are significantly less issues for our concerns. And considering our problems with our expanding population, it is not necessary for an individual to reproduce to keep our biology going. Many humans can and do choose not to reproduce now a days and it does not affect the effectiveness of our species, in fact it is currently helping it with all our demanding environmental risks.
Also keep in mind that humans as a species are made up of individuals, and because we are individuals purpose is found on a relative scale.
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yea but if you go back to what i was explaining in the first place, i was explaining non-human animal behavior and how non-human animals behave precisely as vehicles for passing on genetic information because they haven't defeated non-kin conflicts of interest, which humans have.
humans can subjectively have different goals (or at least think they have different goals) but in terms of a species and evolution and the context of what i was trying to explain, reproductive success is basically still the ultimate goal.