Your original point doesn't stand because that wasn't even your original point. Your original point was that marriage is doomed to failure because people are hard-wired to cheat by sexual intercourse. Which is, of course, just an over-reduction and an incredibly simple-minded way of seeing things.
Straw man I’m afraid. You should seek clarification before jumping to conclusions as to what my original point was. My original point (if you read it again) clearly states that it is ‘
strict adherance’ to a traditional marital contract (with obviously the normal stipulation of sexual fidelity that goes with it) that is doomed to failure. I never meant or said that the marriage itself is doomed to failure as a result of any infidelity- in fact I believe it should not result in the failure of a marriage.
Also, I said men are
‘hardwired’ to copulate with other females & women have similar desires. This does not explicitly exclude the possibility of non physical forms of infidelity so I’m not being reductionist.
I pointed out that (according to the unsourced pop-science headline piece you used as proof) only half of people cheat (in some form). And half is not most, and certainly not "nearly all."
1)It is best not to selectively make use of that source yourself to illustrate your own point & then immediately after I’ve used it try to discredit it as being weak. What was the word you used – chicanery.
2) Half is enough to make my point a perfectly valid one but actually if we look at what it says- it says 50% of women & 60% of men have extra marital affairs- this makes my point a perfectly valid one in light of that source which you chose to you use yourself when it suited you This does not
prove my point .I haven’t stated that I can prove this without any shadow of a doubt as statistics on this sort of thing are likely to be not reflective of the true position- who wants to admit to cheating? Having said that, what stats there are out there still indicate I have a strong point.
You then abandon your original point, I assume because you saw your schoolboy error, and then move on to a new point, which is that 80% of marriages are affected by infidelity in some form (according to the same unsourced pop-science headline piece you used as proof).
Nope. My original point is still a solid one that I have stuck to. That 80% figure from that source is just me using it to highlight & assert the validity of my original point which I have clarified above. I have not moved on or changed to a new point at all.
Topic: Marriage?