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by aym62SAE49CZ684 741 days ago
A good way to figure out how we are "supposed" to parent might be to study primates and other mammals.
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That suggests strategies to test, but doesn't tell us if they are good strategies. (Risk of naturalistic fallacy.)

Compare to "what is the best way to walk" and then studying gorillas. We might learn something, but we obviously should not--heh--ape those evolutionary relatives. We've had more than enough time to develop our own separate-possibly incompatible--situation and needs.

Sure, I agree. Animals don't wear clothes either!

That said, sometimes you might want to take a chance and not wait for the results of an experiment to be known. ChatGPT calls this a "temporal dilemma".

oh man please don't study the lions

...also, closer to us, definitely don't study the bonobos