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RE: Is This Empowerment, Or Objectification?
It's not a matter of "values", it's a matter of instinctual drives. Birds don't "value" flying south in the winter, they just do it instinctually. Humans (on average) SAY that they VALUE monogamy, but instinctually they pursue multiple sex partners. Virtially all psychologists (whether of the evolutionary variety or not) and virtually all scientists agree that humans act mostly as a consequence of unconscious urges and that free will is mostly an illusion. I understand you to disagree with that. That's fine. Just know that the science is against you, so don't cite science to support any of your positions in the future.
I don't know how many times I have to say this: I never denied science as a whole.
There are a lot more factors that go into what motivates us besides instinct, as I previously said. If you feel that instinct is your only motivator, not your experiences, then yes, I definitely disagree with that.
It's an overly simplified cop out to excuse bad behavior, and gives people zero accountability for their actions because it's all "unconscious."