Lately I have been dragging my friends in my blog posts and in this one too I can't leave them alone. Sorry friends!! The discussions with you and the life experiences force me to think and this blog is just the manifestation of my thoughts :-)
A friend of mine says the only reason or purpose of life is to reproduce and die. Every action or decision of ours is in alignment with this goal of life. Fair enough if we are to only reproduce and die then let me figure out how does marriage as an institution supports this overarching objective of life.
It goes without saying that any human being wouldn't like its creation to be bad or of inferior quality. In this special scenario the creation is not only the efforts and attributes of one single person but also depends on the partner. Hence both the partners would always strive to get the best of the opposite sex so that their creation is the best too. One of my other friends puts it nicely that I want to ensure my kid gets his/her genetic material from a woman who has a good genetic line. I totally agree to his point of view.
However, what happens to all those people whose attributes are not good enough. Either they have congenital defects like physical deformities or they are more vulnerable to certain diseases(ones which can't be completely cured) like diabetes, cancer, glaucoma etc. Hence in this rational decision-making process such people should not be chosen as partners to reproduce with. Who in his or her rightful mind would like to marry a person who has some bad genes and have a kid with some deformity!! I guess that's why our parents search for all great attributes in their prospective son or daughter-in-laws. In such a scenario such people would end up partnerless even if they want to have one and be stigmatized in the society because of no fault of theirs.
What happens when people fall in love? Does this same rational decision-making process continue consciously or sub-consciously? To be frank I don't know the answer to this question. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't. Because if a human being is rational he/she would never willingly accept an inferior partner
and hence slowly the less fit people would be weeded out according to the famous Charles Darwin. I guess everyone has seen perfect babies born to physically challenged parents and perfect parents having babies with not so perfect attributes. Partly it can be explained by science and partly I guess destiny...
Is it right to say not being rational is being in love? Or is it right to say there is nothing called love because being in love defeats the only reason of existence...
A friend of mine says the only reason or purpose of life is to reproduce and die. Every action or decision of ours is in alignment with this goal of life. Fair enough if we are to only reproduce and die then let me figure out how does marriage as an institution supports this overarching objective of life.
It goes without saying that any human being wouldn't like its creation to be bad or of inferior quality. In this special scenario the creation is not only the efforts and attributes of one single person but also depends on the partner. Hence both the partners would always strive to get the best of the opposite sex so that their creation is the best too. One of my other friends puts it nicely that I want to ensure my kid gets his/her genetic material from a woman who has a good genetic line. I totally agree to his point of view.
However, what happens to all those people whose attributes are not good enough. Either they have congenital defects like physical deformities or they are more vulnerable to certain diseases(ones which can't be completely cured) like diabetes, cancer, glaucoma etc. Hence in this rational decision-making process such people should not be chosen as partners to reproduce with. Who in his or her rightful mind would like to marry a person who has some bad genes and have a kid with some deformity!! I guess that's why our parents search for all great attributes in their prospective son or daughter-in-laws. In such a scenario such people would end up partnerless even if they want to have one and be stigmatized in the society because of no fault of theirs.
What happens when people fall in love? Does this same rational decision-making process continue consciously or sub-consciously? To be frank I don't know the answer to this question. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't. Because if a human being is rational he/she would never willingly accept an inferior partner
and hence slowly the less fit people would be weeded out according to the famous Charles Darwin. I guess everyone has seen perfect babies born to physically challenged parents and perfect parents having babies with not so perfect attributes. Partly it can be explained by science and partly I guess destiny...
Is it right to say not being rational is being in love? Or is it right to say there is nothing called love because being in love defeats the only reason of existence...
