Afternoons with Jinks

So we have been having early days for this week what with the visits to airbases and stuff. I got to sit in an operational F16D cockpit, went into the E2c hawkeye and also the Fokker 50. How exciting is that? I don't know. It would have been alot more gasp inducing had it been a good ten years ago. But then again, ten years ago I knew I can never be a pilot (yawn) or a commando (yay!). Stupid myopia.

So on the ride back with jinks. what we were rambling about was airy cause it was after lunch at sakae sushi.

it was whether or not to have a single partner for life is natural. basically is monogamy natural?

i had brought it up earlier at lunch at sakae. but i got an answer from a christian (city harvester) that i thought was as much as a cop out. he said something to the effect of "take it from the bible". I'm sure christians have opinions of their own and when they bring that up, i just think it's a cop out. like it must be in the bible that heaven is exclusive so christians get to go. it doesn't really matter if you're taoist and you deserve a place up there. you didn't meet the criteria. whatever. I secretly hope there is no heaven. i seriously need purgatory.

anyhow.

Looking at the animal kingdom (ok, i hear christians saying we aren't animals, know what, they are right. we aren't.) females basically want a strong guy so that she can give her eggs to. males just wanna make sure their genes continue. that is basic. which means females dun care if strong guy mates elsewhere as long as her eggs are hatched and stuff. males don't care after the eggs hatch.

I'm starting to ramble.

Well, for me, I'd think that it's 100% unnatural to have a mate for life. And the only thing that prevents us from continuously finding a new mate while we can, and sow the proverbial wild oats, is that there is a functioning society that we live in and that which is define by norms, values and mores. But it is also the defining character that separates us from animals. without which, we are not civilised.

Louisa May Alcott seems to recognise this way back in the Victorian era. I quote from her famous novel Little Women,

Boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles

Haha, of course, I am quoting her out of context.