Get a load of this guy 🫵
I mean seriously get a load of this guy. His reasoning is bound to seem genuine to those who have never thought deeply about certain societal practices which are implicit in what people rationally interpret as abject. But this is where he falters ridiculously, why are people being blamed and guilt tripped for something they never truly got to consciously decide for themselves?
Nature has programmed all sentient beings in this manner how can an ordinary animal like human hope to transcend that? Why should I be ashamed to act on something I didn't even choose? Clearly I didn't ask whoever made me to impart these tendencies within. It's a dumb argument, Yes Marriages are all about physical relation so what? We are just a bunch of monkeys who learned to talk and now suddenly some of us have started acting as if we are capable of completely different behaviours than other species inhabiting our biological hierarchy. How exactly does one begin to radically transform into a being completely distanced from everything that has brought the world to where it remains today?
Humans forged their own sense of ethical considerations overtime which made certain things seem despicable from that perspective but notice how even that didn't result in us doing anything significantly different than other lower mammals. It's one of the exact reasons why topics like sex still remain a taboo but humans still indulge in it just as profusely as they pretend to be disgusted by it in public discourses. Yes. People in marriages are solely interested in each other's physical bodies and even though they don't openly go about claiming it, their act of saying it loud would have little impact on their ensuing life anyway because the world doesn't operate as much on logic/Idealism as the pragmatism which in itself is independent of any external moderation.
But mind you! I don't propose living like oblivious crackheads absorbed in their own delirium either, human rationality is supposed to be used where it can actually be productive in its outcomes like scientific disciplines and what not; banging your head against the deterministic principles of existence which you didn't choose and pretending to tame what's inherently irrational and obscure through your superior reasoning is pseudo rationality and a narcissistic approach to life, where you artificially convince yourself of being a Nietzschian Overman by going against the crowd.
If we are to reject all the pretences with which the world is ridden, what other alternative remains for us? If there's a promise of some transcendental experience in the conclusion of this conscious asceticism, it still remains as illusory as the narratives we are intent on rejecting now, in that case wouldn't it mean that we are renouncing a delusion while pursuing another?
This might come off as slightly pessimistic but we have so little control on our lives, we didn't get to decide anything that we are possessed with right now and our lives might be a lot more deterministic than we might think, does our guy really blame people for merely having the instincts to pursue the opposite gender? I guess if that's something condemnable before his eyes, then his adherents should be better off castrating themselves.