I am not taking about what people want to be or what you should or should not do. My point wasn’t about “should” but about “is”. I am also not talking about all human interactions but specifically sex, which is goal oriented and has a very clear concept of a prize (a reward) if you think in terms of reinforcement learning.
I am also not talking about all human interactions but specifically sex, which is goal oriented and has a very clear concept of a prize (a reward) if you think in terms of reinforcement learning.
Okay, let me rephrase this again, in light of that wording of your position:
“Do not treat human beings simply as means to achieve a goal, even if the human being is necessary for that goal.”
I mostly agree if you look at it from a moral standpoint, even because completely guiding your actions by egocentric goals is antisocial behavior. My concern was about the complete erasure of that goal in language. It is true that humans are more than what their biology sets them to be, but obscuring the actual goal in language seems to be a repressive enactment.
I am not taking about what people want to be or what you should or should not do. My point wasn’t about “should” but about “is”. I am also not talking about all human interactions but specifically sex, which is goal oriented and has a very clear concept of a prize (a reward) if you think in terms of reinforcement learning.
Okay, let me rephrase this again, in light of that wording of your position:
“Do not treat human beings simply as means to achieve a goal, even if the human being is necessary for that goal.”
I mostly agree if you look at it from a moral standpoint, even because completely guiding your actions by egocentric goals is antisocial behavior. My concern was about the complete erasure of that goal in language. It is true that humans are more than what their biology sets them to be, but obscuring the actual goal in language seems to be a repressive enactment.
It’s repressive to ask men to not view women only as sexual conquests because of biology?
That’s not what I said and I am tired of answering
Oh no, did I misunderstand your assertion that it’s human nature to objectify women?
Wouldn’t the “prize” be the act of sex and not the woman herself? You are not granted ownership of a woman just by having sex with her.
True, I didn’t pay attention to that. A prize implies ownership. So she would represent a prize but not be one. Good point