>>24832616
ok, i'll assume you think everything comes down to sex because you wouldn't like to be a genetic dead end. it's really about the continuance of you, for this is how you regard your own offspring: an extension of yourself.

most men deny their deaths like so because it's the easiest way. becoming history is a far greater way to make oneself immortal, but you and 90% of mankind will not do that, so they stave off death anxiety by passing on their genes instead—while being historically insignificant as individuals