You do know that -gamy means marriage right? We aren’t talking about polyamory, we are talking about polygamy.

I don’t think western governments allow polygamous marriages. Or do you mean only dating and never having legal rights?

Reminds me of MCMC sampling, or straight up rejection sampling.

If you have a huge think about it: If abortion is not a possibility, rape becomes a viable biological strategy. So what you are gonna die (mob justice probably), mantid males also die after procreation. Welcome to the great-old-new world.

Maybe being sentient is about saying no all the time: You are a sack of water made out of carbon and it always wants to simply fall but you have keep saying “no, we stand”, “no, we tilt slightly forward” (walk) etc.

At night, when there’s nothing to do and you’ve already lost your battle against gravity (a comfy bed), maybe the helpful naysayer starts generating bullshit?