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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2660 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025

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Did Genghis Khan want any of these things? Of course not - he just wanted to spread his seed.

Genghis khan presumably enjoyed having sex with these many, many women.

Yes, but I assume he also wanted numerous offspring.

No, there is a difference. Most men who want this also want to have some influence over the way their sons are raised, how they are educated, what they believe. They want an army, a legacy, a legion of sons who look up to them and who follow them and who carry on their essence in ways that are substantially but not solely genetic. Elon doesn’t really do any of this, these kids are going to grow up to be the generic lib children of their prostitute mothers. That is less usual.

Thank you, this is what I’m getting at- when my aunt’s husband divorced her after selling a patent, he was more than happy to use money as a substitute for doing any of the actual work involved in parenting. But he was very very particular about how other people did the work, he wanted to see report cards, decide on schools, residence, etc.

This is the sort of thing that would be far more typical of Musk.

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