Walker wrote:
Non-propagators obviously have a driving force other than propagation.
Well, the non-propagators have the driving force AS IF they were propagators. These are, in my opinion, genetically-hard wired driving forces to replicate a goal common to all humans, and all animals. If a specimen does not propagate, s/he still behaves as if, because the gene commands or compels him or her to do so.
Life is replete with man's ingenuity to follow the driving force, and not follow it. For instance:
- Most sex acts: copulation and intercourse, between two fertile people of compatible child bearing qualities do not result in pregnancy.
- Most people are constantly on the lookout for opportunities of pleasures of acts of propagation.
- Those who have no chance of propagation with the sex act, still keep on being on the lookout for any opportunity.
- Most of us care about children, an overwhelming majority of all humans, indeed. This applies whether we are propagators or not.
Genetically coded behavior is hard to break. Priests, nuns, monks, who are celibate, and do not wank off in the corner at all when it's dark, or in any other circumstances, have beaten the code.