Re: Dad Snoops In Sons Closet, Find Dead Woman


"Bart Bailey" <me2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In Message-ID:<46ad4266$0$27249$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted on Sun,
29 Jul 2007 18:40:31 -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: Begin

But isn't ones own personal survival so inbred
(in order to accomplish genetic survival)
as to occasionally override the logic of statistics
and a parent will indeed sacrifice the odds on favorite of an
offspring?

IOW: does a parents own will to survive sometimes have a greater
influence over their behavior than the cold logic odds that their
offspring might be a better bet for genetic preservation?

It has nothing to do with cold logic, it's genetics. Programmed behavior.
Nobody stops to think "let's see, should I save my child or myself?"


I didn't understand the last part of the sentence, but parents will
usually
choose their children's survival over their own, especially as the
child (and the parent) gets older.

I suppose the words 'usually' and 'occasionally' could interchange,
although my word has less specificity, in absence of actual data.

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Bart


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