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OP has literarily stated here That the only point of life is to make offspring and everything else is a worthless distraction.
Yeah, and he’s basically correct.
He's very incorrect. I'd further postulate that its a very lonely and sad belief rooted in biological determinism. That is a stance but there is far more to life than making offspring. The comment below his points out a lot of ways its just a cope stance.
I guess if you are a staunch materialist/biological determinist, we are pretty much going to disagree due to values. However its worth pointing out I am not arguing with a caricature, it is a stated position. So if you still think I am tilting at windmills, I invite you to specify more clearly why.
He’s not incorrect insofar as most men the world over want sex and also children. Are these people all lying?
He's incorrect insofar as the only point of your existence is to have sex and children. The meaning of life is not "whatever biology says it is"
Whether or not you find fulfillment in other things is irrelevant to what your biological purpose is. Live your life however you want; that isn’t the point.
How exactly do you define "biological purpose"? How do you know your "biological purpose" is not dying on the battlefield so that the wealthiest man in your village gets enough loot to afford his 50th kid, or consuming more low-growing wild berries so that tapeworms, who happen to be the true Pinnacle of Creation and Protagonists of Biology, may thrive?
I say this unironically: I check my penis and that’s about where the analysis ends. I also have biology textbooks and know about the theory of evolution. That you can’t have other purposes in life isn’t the point. My only coda to his statement is to attach to the argument the fact that to the OP’s point, for most men on planet Earth, their biological purpose converges with the rest of their natural desires in life. As I said originally: most men desire sex and also desire children. It does nothing to rebut the argument to say that some men don’t desire sex or children, or elevate alternative meanings of purpose in their lives (a minority viewpoint, hence why “most” was the keyword in that sentence).
It seems to be that you have completely dodged the question. Words are supposed to mean things. What does "biological purpose" mean to you? It's not a concept that is in my dictionary, nor one that I encounter frequently enough to intuitively understand from the corpus like an LLM. As far as I can tell, you might just have strung together two words into a nonsensical compound that only gains an air of importance because of the meaning of the second one. I might as well retort that whatever your biological purpose is, the fear of grammatical asphyxiation which nobody can deny will happen to you if you are a horndog means you best give up on actualising it!
More to the point, M-W. says for purpose,
Which one of these is it supposed be? People are not "done or used" in general although I guess you could e.g. say the purpose(a) of a surrogate mother is procreation; if it's (b) or (c) you just reduce the problem to needing to define a biological feeling or biological aim or goal.
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