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		mensetmanusman 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The demographic future of humanity: facts and cons... This is a strange take, evolution resulted in sex as the means to creating the next set of offspring.

spauldo 4 months ago [–]

Evolution is a process. It can't assign a purpose to anything, because "purpose" doesn't exist outside the minds of people, similar to "justice" and "hope."

The "purpose" of sex is whatever we choose it to be.

mensetmanusman 4 months ago | [–]

The purpose of bird wings is to salute to their superiors.

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