Why Does Everyone Want to Date?

[jkid101094]

So I searched the question up and, to my surprise, it was not covered by Vsauce.



See?

So I figured I'd ask you guys. I really want to know. I feel like if we list our reasons we could track down a decent few key points.

[shadowDOESrock]

Love, Lust, Togetherness.
We're like Cats, basically.

[jkid101094]

Elaborate, because I can think of other reasons.

[Ye Olde Swagfag]

Because we want someone to love, and stay together with potentially for life?

[jkid101094]

But why do we want those things?

[Hakudamashi]

I want someone reliable to cover my weaknessess

I want someone strong, for I am weak
I want someone active in the morning, for I am active in the night
I want an overachiever, for I am an underachiever
I want someone who a leader, for I am a follower

I search for my other half, the one who is everything I am not, so we can become a whole perfect being.

I wish for children, a envoy to carriy my genes so I can continue to exist for eternity, to do this, I need a companion. A companion who can coexist with me for eternity, for my child requires guidance, guidance of those who can shim him/her the good, and the evil of the world

[Elija2]

I just want someone who I can fuck and play video games with?

[Hakudamashi]

I just want someone who I can fuck and play video games with?

You don't need to date to do that.

[Ye Olde Swagfag]

But why do we want those things?

HUMAN NATURE

[jkid101094]

Wow you guys really don't know how to look past the surface, do you?

[Hakudamashi]

Well then mister I'm so deep, why do you think people date?

[jkid101094]

Please, Mr. I'm So Deep is my father. Just call me Deep Throat.

...Seriously, though. I'd be glad to post my thoughts if you guys were honestly willing to have an intelligent discussion about the wall of text I'd be throwing at you. No reason to cramp my arm over something pointless now, is there?

[Hakudamashi]

...Seriously, though. I'd be glad to post my thoughts if you guys were honestly willing to have an intelligent discussion about the wall of text I'd be throwing at you.

What made you think we weren't Deep Throat?

[Elija2]

...Seriously, though. I'd be glad to post my thoughts if you guys were honestly willing to have an intelligent discussion about the wall of text I'd be throwing at you. No reason to cramp my arm over something pointless now, is there?

Not really sure what discussion there is to have. People are attracted to other people for many different reasons. People date to express their commitment to their relationship. Not everyone is interested in a relationship though, and if you aren't then that's fine.

[Wolfy]

But why do we want those things?

I get what you mean, sorta. Honestly, with those videos you puushed, it's obvious that some men think with their dicks and not their minds. Lots of us still have very good reasons to look for girlfriends though.

For one, there's the concept of sharing your life with them. Share all your experiences with them on a level higher than any other. Look out for each other. Make each others' days. Things like that. At one point, you realize how lonely life can be alone and you think of what it would be like to live it alongside someone else. Or at least, that's my reasoning for wanting a girlfriend.

Then there's being in love with someone, which is a royal pain in the ass but carries the sweetest feeling you'd ever know if you could actually do it right.


tl;dr guys want girlfriends for more than just sex and sandwiches

[shadowDOESrock]

In the end it all boils down to the fact that it's nature, really.

[jkid101094]

In the end it all boils down to the fact that it's nature, really.

If human nature was the only reason then it would be a necessity, yet I know plenty of people that couldn't care less.

[Hakudamashi]

If human nature was the only reason then it would be a necessity, yet I know plenty of people that couldn't care less.

It is also a necessity to eat meat, yet there are vegans

[shadowDOESrock]

If human nature was the only reason then it would be a necessity, yet I know plenty of people that couldn't care less.

Because humans fight nature.

[Hakudamashi]

Because humans fight nature.

Yet we have hippies.

[shadowDOESrock]

Yet we have hippies.

That's just another extreme.

[Hakudamashi]

And as we have extremes, we have the unenthusiastic unextremes

People are different, which is why I dislike general words/questions.

[shadowDOESrock]

People are different, which is why I dislike general words/questions.

They are nothing but shells, for we are, but deep down, all the same - because, we, just like everything else in nature, are bound by instinct.

[Hakudamashi]

They are nothing but shells, for we are, but deep down, all the same - because, we, just like everything else in nature, are bound by instinct.

Y'know it's supposedly an "instinct" to fight over mates.

[shadowDOESrock]

Y'know it's supposedly an "instinct" to fight over mates.

Implying that doesnt happen.

[Hakudamashi]

Implying that doesnt happen.

But does it happen because instinct, or cause some people are more assertive than others?