new meme:

[drewkitty]

If you oppose the Bush regime or the War on Terror, post this to your journal or blog.

"Liberals don't let liberal friends sleep with conservatives. If they must be so very dense, let them settle for their own hands, closeted gays, and what passes for sexuality among conservative women."

Comments

Some Preliminary Points

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

So if being a slut is not sinful, exactly what is your problem with sluts?

Ok, first of all, I disagree with your implicit argument that a code of ethics or morality must be based upon religion: that only with a concept of "sin" is a concept of Good and Evil possible. An alternative approach is to designate "good" that which advances the cause of one's own survival and happiness in the long term, and "evil" that which harms this cause.

Interestingly, when one does this, the resultant prescribed behavior conforms fairly closely to most religiously based codes of morality. The reason is simple: religions are evolved memetic systems, and those which failed to promote the long-term survival and happiness of their adherents generally failed in Darwinian competition with more felicitious religions.

Now, as to my specific original point:

The choice of a mate, evolutionarily and personally, is one of the most important choices any human being can make. It is certainly more important to any individual than political details, especially when one reflects that one has roughly 50% of the power in choosing a mate (the intended mate has the other 50% of the power) but only tiny fractions of a percent of the power in choosing one's political leadership.

Hence, unless the political differences are extreme and translated into extreme personal behavioral differences (Scrooge McDuck marrying an Anarrean anarchosocialist), it is irrational to let political differences stand in the way of mating with someone you would otherwise find desirable.