African Peasant
Veteran
Where are you from if you don't mind me asking? My preface for asking is I am trying to get a grasp on your cultural beliefs? I was raised in a western society, America to be specific. In my culture, specific to my household, when faced with an issue, it is your duty as a man to solve whatever problem you face.
You say that women aren't scared anymore but I don't think its as simple as women no longer being afraid of cheating rather why they are cheating and it therefore being rationalized as acceptable behavior.
Fear is irrational and so is cheating so we can at the very least agree that they have that commonality. So once again we are faced with the issue of how do we as men solve the problem of casting aside this fearful society that we reside in. I think it is less of what the coli equates promiscuity with western culture and more along the lines of a culture of fear being closely associated with western culture.
Fear is what kills marriage in my opinion. Fear of missing out. Fear of how our peers view our mates. Fear of the wrong person hurting our feelings. If we as men become rational in our thought processes, I can say with confidence that its highly probably that our ability to select the proper mate for marriage would increase substantially.
I'm from Congo-Zaire.
Fear and guilt always been tools of social control. Why do you think feminists attacked "slut shaming" ? Those things work.
The consequences of one's actions (in this case cheating) always had an effect on the probability of one acting a way or another.
A society where people are told that cheating is bad and where cheating result in ostracization or worst will give agents different incentives from a society where cheating is normal and without consequences. People react to incentives and social environment.
I think at this point, we're above the question of choosing the right mate. When society itself becomes so toxic against marriage and fidelity, choosing the right one become less and less important. It becomes a cultural problem and individual solutions are not sufficient.
I don't know if cheating is irrational: I know that it's immoral, but irrational ? I don't know.
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