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Originally Posted by Harry
I said that people who rape have sexual urge. I denied that all who have sexual urge have desire to rape.
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Actually, you claimed sexual urge had nothing to do with rape and now you think it does, but alright .. let's call that water under the bridge.
It's clear you don't really know how evolution works.
Let's say you are an ugly creature and noone wants to have sex with you. Could you start to biologically evolve a behaviour where you choose to abstain from sex? The simple answer is no because you wouldn't pass on your genes which are the basis for the behaviour. Evolution wouldn't have anything to work on.
Now, let's say you are a sickly creature which noone wants to have sex with. But this time, let's say you have a gene which makes you commit rape when in this situation. Could this evolve in nature? Without analyzing it too much, the answer should be yes because the rapist is able to reproduce and pass on the rape-gene to his offspring. If you add that there are potential benefits to this strategy - for example the rapist doesn't spend much energy raising the offspring and he could choose the partner rather than relying on them choosing him, then you can start to see how it might make sense as a strategy. You obviously fail to recognize this inherent selfishness which really is key to much of how evolution works.
That doesn't mean biology says it
is a strategy, but it's one hypothesis and it would be interesting to discuss them. That's really what the thread should be about, not whether or not rape is biological. Of course it is. As far as we know, every behaviour and everything we are has it's roots in biology and unless an existence of
you independent of your body really exists, you can't escape it.