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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8850849" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>Indeed, this isn't something specific to Humans, but they are the only sentient/free-willed one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't agree with your analysis (on this point, I agree that the goal of having a surviving species and numerous one (because being numerous is a good way not to be wiped out at the first fluke) is served by several things you mentionned, as well as having an interest in reproduction). There is an instinct to try to get your genes out. And in order to make it happen, it is pleasurable to have sex. Given his goal of having a surviving (and numerous) population, the creator god of humans made it so humans are actually enjoying trying to reproduce. When they can't get laid, they often emulate reproductive behaviour. Despite being sentient. They consciously choose, more often than not, to seek this pleasurable activity.</p><p></p><p>If I were Moradin, I'd copy the evolutionary god and, since I wouldn't be focusing to making a lot of dwarves (in the classical representation of them, they don't seem to have many more children than humans despite their century-long existence, and I don't have an example of the son of a dwarf being born at the same time as the great-great-great-grandson of one. Multiplication wasn't a strong design goal apparently). I would make them rely on few food, would make them feel ever so slightly ill-at-ease when it's too hot, so they seek underground habitat (to maximize their comfort) and I'll make them have orgasm while forging swords instead of making babies. The longer and the more intense as the quality of the sword increase. Even sentient and free-willed, you'd be seeing a lot of forging dwarves. Teenagers dwarves would exchange prints of virile dwarves swinging their tool (to forge swords, keep focused) and they'd massively undertake forging activity. Old dwarves would lament their younger days, when they could forge three or four swords in a single evening... Some would because it has a social utility (providing goods for the city to trade or weapons to use in war), some because "it's what everyone does", and most would do it because they just enjoy doing it. Non-forging dwarves would exist, of course, much like asexual humans do exist, but they'd be the exception. There would be many dwarven culture, much like ours, united by a few commonalities (tend to eat soberly, tend to live in underground cities, tend to engage in forging activies a lot). Much like IRL humans are diverse, united by a few commonalities (tend to be overweight as soon as food abound, tend to live in overground cities, tend to engage in sexual activities a lot). There is no reason to consider our pecularities as "baseline".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8850849, member: 42856"] Indeed, this isn't something specific to Humans, but they are the only sentient/free-willed one. I don't agree with your analysis (on this point, I agree that the goal of having a surviving species and numerous one (because being numerous is a good way not to be wiped out at the first fluke) is served by several things you mentionned, as well as having an interest in reproduction). There is an instinct to try to get your genes out. And in order to make it happen, it is pleasurable to have sex. Given his goal of having a surviving (and numerous) population, the creator god of humans made it so humans are actually enjoying trying to reproduce. When they can't get laid, they often emulate reproductive behaviour. Despite being sentient. They consciously choose, more often than not, to seek this pleasurable activity. If I were Moradin, I'd copy the evolutionary god and, since I wouldn't be focusing to making a lot of dwarves (in the classical representation of them, they don't seem to have many more children than humans despite their century-long existence, and I don't have an example of the son of a dwarf being born at the same time as the great-great-great-grandson of one. Multiplication wasn't a strong design goal apparently). I would make them rely on few food, would make them feel ever so slightly ill-at-ease when it's too hot, so they seek underground habitat (to maximize their comfort) and I'll make them have orgasm while forging swords instead of making babies. The longer and the more intense as the quality of the sword increase. Even sentient and free-willed, you'd be seeing a lot of forging dwarves. Teenagers dwarves would exchange prints of virile dwarves swinging their tool (to forge swords, keep focused) and they'd massively undertake forging activity. Old dwarves would lament their younger days, when they could forge three or four swords in a single evening... Some would because it has a social utility (providing goods for the city to trade or weapons to use in war), some because "it's what everyone does", and most would do it because they just enjoy doing it. Non-forging dwarves would exist, of course, much like asexual humans do exist, but they'd be the exception. There would be many dwarven culture, much like ours, united by a few commonalities (tend to eat soberly, tend to live in underground cities, tend to engage in forging activies a lot). Much like IRL humans are diverse, united by a few commonalities (tend to be overweight as soon as food abound, tend to live in overground cities, tend to engage in sexual activities a lot). There is no reason to consider our pecularities as "baseline". [/QUOTE]
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