Do you think my evopsych theories are correct?

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1. Racism came from humanity's earliest days when we were starting to organize into tribes. Xenophobia would be needed or you would be attacked by one of the other tribes. In modern society these xenophobic tendencies manifest as racism, religious discrimination, and intelligence discrimination*.
*intelligence discrimination refers to looking down on the uneducated and the uneducated thinking that the educated are 'pussies'

2. Homophobia is not simple xenophobia. The worlds population was once reduced to 10,000** people. We unfortunately still disencourage anything that keeps a person from reproduction.
**this has not been proven
3. We are beginning to mock people who don't have sex. This is for the same reason above.
4. We are instinctively encouraged to do drugs. I don't know why, but other animals actually do get high. And we have cannibinoid receptors.

Can't we step past these things? We are not in tribes any more. The world's population is TOO HIGH. We need 'lonely virgins' and we need homosexuals. We need to legalize marijuana and shrooms because we are instinctively driven to use drugs and we are going to get it from much more dangerous sources like METH!

Do you agree?

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no 4
some of them (explain in comments) 5
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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    This makes so much sense. I think this would be a reasonable explanation. It also proves prejudice people are a bunch of primates who really need to learn to evolve like the rest of us. Since we are not really all that different. People and animals get high because it feels good. It has some very indictive qualities in many cases though. If you ever seen a cat in a catnip fields they look high as hell.

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  • Francophile22
    11 years ago

    Interesting points but most of what you would call 'racists' that I know/have heard about actually became that way over time from personal experience; e.g.: the brother of Django Rheinhart (the Gypsy jazz violinist) actually stole cigarettes for the band - stealing being a Gypsy stereotype.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Nope, they are good theories but they fall somewhat short of correct.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    I've made some polls while I was high too. The latest one is about monsters.

    I agree we need more virgins and gays and we should legalise weed and shrooms.

    Lots of funny jokes depend on racism, and some not funny ones require weed to be funny.

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    • VioletTrees
      11 years ago

      Why do we need more virgins?

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      • Justsomejerk
        11 years ago

        To serve Islamic martyrs in the afterlife.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        The population is way too high. Anything that stops rampant births without harming somebody is good.

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        • VioletTrees
          11 years ago

          So use contraception.

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  • Wendell
    11 years ago

    Weeeeeiiirrdd

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  • Allistalla
    11 years ago

    Those are intresting thoerys .

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  • VioletTrees
    11 years ago

    1) I think that tribal recognition might be part of what causes people to be disposed to racial prejudice, but racism as a system of oppression is more complicated than that.

    2) I disagree that homophobia is in any way genetic (which it would have to be for evolutionary psychology to apply), because there have been a variety of cultures in which homosexuality was/is completely accepted.

    3) Since chastity has been praised for centuries, that doesn't really make sense.

    4) No comment.

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