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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Date: 23 Jan 93 12:42:48
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan23124248@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- References: <phantasm.727040631@vincent1.iastate.edu> <ewright.727042916@convex.convex.com>
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- In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:36:49 GMT
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- In article <ewright.727735009@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- In <93020.213759SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
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- >Ed, whoa - why is being single a pathological condition?
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- Being single is not a pathological condition. *Enjoying*
- being single would be. Evolution would have eliminating
- any such trait from the species long ago.
-
- That is simply one of the stupidist statements I've seen written with
- good grammar and sentence structure on this whole group, ever.
-
- Being "single" I presume implies "not in a monogamous relationship" or
- at least "not in a committed long term relationship" whether we mean Ed
- Wright the pinnacle of human evolution or Ugh the Cave Person.
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- Now, tell me: what is the evolutionary advantage to being happy only
- when in such a relationship, over being happy without a relationship and
- instead being free to find many flowers to try and poolinate?
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