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christianity didn't succeed accidentally. however you want to attribute the source it's keyed into hard biotruths: civilization was built on monogamy. so i wasn't referring to synth harems, which will probably be odd and rare, i was referring to biological harems.
it would be a miracle if in the groups of people-who-date there are proportionate cohorts of synth-affinity and the total numbers go down but the percentage of activity is the same. that's not going to happen. the mismatch in synth use will cause an imbalance between the group with higher synth-affinity (most likely men) over the population with lower synth-affinity and higher-for-varying-reasons relational incompatibility with synths (most likely women). so they'll accept meager physical connection because it's all they can get to fulfill themselves and have children, and we'll see a return to harems and their rot on the soul of humanity. harems make power, they make kings and before that warlords and chieftains, who raped and murdered themselves permanently into the genome. chimpanzees have harems. as we reach for the stars we may also be inviting back ancient evil.
if i haven't conveyed enough how much i hate what i see on the horizon, there. the sum of errors of the last century may make grave decisions necessary for us to make it through the next century. i won't pretend there's good in that beyond survival. life, then atonement.
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