🚀 go-pugleaf

>>we survive by virtue of our rational faculty.
>
>	Surely not only that? Mating is an important part of
>racial survival, but mating seems to have a very necessary
>bit of irrationality about it :-).

I hope you mean "*species* survival".  As to "necessary irrationality",
and disregarding your smiley, I'd say some *rationality* is needed to
stop mating and start making love instead of babies.  Harrumph (:-))
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