I said: "Women's ability to produce children is the greatest resource the human race has." You said: What makes you say this? Every organism on the planet has the ability to reproduce itself. I don't see it as the most important resource of human society beyond the most basic need for continuing the species.
Your second sentence says it all. I didn't mean anything beyond that, but I find that pretty significant. If we don't reproduce, we die out, and any other resources we may or may not have are pretty damn useless. Now, obviously, we need both male and female to do this reproducing thing. However, the female half is clearly the limiting factor, since it takes 9 months in her body, and then an additional 2-4 years of infertility is associated with each child. (In modern society, with formula and an abudance of food, fertility returns much quicker.)
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timeasmymeasure
Re: virginity
Date: 2006-06-12 01:21 pm (UTC)You said:
What makes you say this? Every organism on the planet has the ability to reproduce itself. I don't see it as the most important resource of human society beyond the most basic need for continuing the species.
Your second sentence says it all. I didn't mean anything beyond that, but I find that pretty significant. If we don't reproduce, we die out, and any other resources we may or may not have are pretty damn useless. Now, obviously, we need both male and female to do this reproducing thing. However, the female half is clearly the limiting factor, since it takes 9 months in her body, and then an additional 2-4 years of infertility is associated with each child. (In modern society, with formula and an abudance of food, fertility returns much quicker.)