I added "or assess its instrumental value." I mentioned that because you can consider the tax break as a family incentive.

Gay people should not be allowed to get married, because marriage is a stupid institution of archaic origin. There is no reason to expand the inclusion of an institution that confers no benefits that can't be legally given by a court, and would upset the majority of the population because they hold to their stupid archaic institution.

Well I find it awesome. Attachment to a person in the case of love only causes you to do something that can be compared to crashing on the road because the bright sunlight was blocking your view of the road ahead of you. You find yourself crashed on the road because love is an emotion that knocks out your rational sight, it makes you blind. Blind, you easily end up in a situation where you are in a costly relationship with a woman, only to realize it when your eyes open up again and that she stole everything from you for her benefit.

What I do allows me to continue making rational choices, and compute predicted returns and investments. I may not have the emotional pleasure to the extent of attaching love with sex, but I still get a good return and for a lot less. Choosing to fall in love and get attached is like making a wild and crazy gamble.

Theo,

Hey now. At least I have some empirical/observational basis for making the claim I did.

Btw, I don't shave my palms since there's no hair on them, but I do shave "down there." Don't you?

Yeah that idea was poorly planned out. However, someone may conceivably want him dead because he opposes their self-interest. If they succeeded, had a legit motive, and their plan was elaborate, I wouldn't be calling them stupid.

Yes, our sexuality is very bizarre compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, but evolutionary advantage is still behind our sexuality as it is theirs. Complex social structures coincided with changes in sexual behavior.

avo,

Well there's a few problems with that. Other animals don't copulate with their parents either. There's an evolutionary reason for this. If we were attracted to and copulated with our parents, then the species would have diminishing returns. There's also evidence that we are repulsed from body odors with similar configuration as our own, who suggest either bad mates or close relatives. Though I can grant you that there's a greater likelihood of mother/son attraction if they did not grow together, it can be explained that social experiences cause us to recognize our relatives, and this recognition causes us to be repulsed by them.

I don't know. Bush was kind of shoved to the side by the pragmatic members of the state department.

He lives in Canada, but is an American citizen. I think he's going to school there or something.

lol Soth.

In truth, I could at least tolerate Obama if he won't raise capital gains.

Bloody Iowans.