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The same reasons people who don't want kids or can't have their own have been forming long term relationships forever. Mutual support, spending all your time with your favorite human, better sex, access to larger support networks via both extended families, raise children if applicable, etc.clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 9:13 pm
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So just to recap. If a world has no STDs, easy contraception, children without pregnancy, a falling marriage rate, the end of the nuclear family. What is now the point of having a long term partner?
You can get all of that by having a good friend. A... friend with benefits, if you will.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:58 amThe same reasons people who don't want kids or can't have their own have been forming long term relationships forever. Mutual support, spending all your time with your favorite human, better sex, access to larger support networks via both extended families, raise children if applicable, etc.clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 9:13 pm
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So just to recap. If a world has no STDs, easy contraception, children without pregnancy, a falling marriage rate, the end of the nuclear family. What is now the point of having a long term partner?
What's the distinction a really good friend you do all that with and a long term relationship in your thinking?clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:36 pmYou can get all of that by having a good friend. A... friend with benefits, if you will.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:58 amThe same reasons people who don't want kids or can't have their own have been forming long term relationships forever. Mutual support, spending all your time with your favorite human, better sex, access to larger support networks via both extended families, raise children if applicable, etc.clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 9:13 pm
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So just to recap. If a world has no STDs, easy contraception, children without pregnancy, a falling marriage rate, the end of the nuclear family. What is now the point of having a long term partner?
Legal unionizing. Basically a contract with binding obligations.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:09 pmWhat's the distinction a really good friend you do all that with and a long term relationship in your thinking?clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:36 pmYou can get all of that by having a good friend. A... friend with benefits, if you will.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:58 amThe same reasons people who don't want kids or can't have their own have been forming long term relationships forever. Mutual support, spending all your time with your favorite human, better sex, access to larger support networks via both extended families, raise children if applicable, etc.clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 9:13 pm
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So just to recap. If a world has no STDs, easy contraception, children without pregnancy, a falling marriage rate, the end of the nuclear family. What is now the point of having a long term partner?
Free love has never about love; it is about lust. It is the desire to be free to let your life be driven by your sexual urges. Which is sub-human behavior, darling.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:29 pm That's because autism isn't a disease. There is nothing to cure.
And as for Friends With Benefits, don't you think that it is actually incredibly likely the more we move away from traditional relationships and marriage in real life that we will have a free love future? In fact with Starfleet's medical tech combined with its post-scarcity society, it takes away the two obstacles that make causal sex a bad idea: STDs and limited access to contraception. The days of staying with one person your whole life and shackling yourself with a ring are already dying, my friend.
You have a very... how can I put respectfully... 1950s Mormon view of sexuality. Yes, that'll do.JL_Stinger wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:51 pmFree love has never about love; it is about lust. It is the desire to be free to let your life be driven by your sexual urges. Which is sub-human behavior, darling.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:29 pm That's because autism isn't a disease. There is nothing to cure.
And as for Friends With Benefits, don't you think that it is actually incredibly likely the more we move away from traditional relationships and marriage in real life that we will have a free love future? In fact with Starfleet's medical tech combined with its post-scarcity society, it takes away the two obstacles that make causal sex a bad idea: STDs and limited access to contraception. The days of staying with one person your whole life and shackling yourself with a ring are already dying, my friend.
Autism is a mental disorder because it causes impairments in function. That is by definition, a disorder.
I'm kind of disturbed by how much toxic positivity there is in the mental health community. Autism and ADHD positivity is nothing compared to DID positivity i.e. "having multiple personalities is fine as long as they all get along." But I can't say it's surprising. One of the earliest online movements was "Pro-Ana" in which people who have eating disorders finally got to meet other people with eating disorders...and rather than trying to get better they encourage each other to get worse.
We are on the way to destruction; make your time.
Hm... Something doesn't fit.CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 2:51 am I'm neuroatypical but my opinion is that "regular" behavior is often dishonest, selfish, and deeply troubling. One thing noticed is that when you ask 10 out of 10 people if they'd keep 1000 dollars they find, 9 out of 10 would say no if no one found out. Far less autistic people would.