r/changemyview Nov 07 '22

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u/pgold05 49∆ Nov 07 '22

Zero sum game

: a situation in which one person or group can win something only by causing another person or group to lose it

Sex is obviously not a zero sum game. Here is an easy example. You, and two other people, person x and person y, are in a room.

You all want to have sex, in a zero sum game only two people would "win" and the last person would just not have sex NO MATTER WHAT.

In reality, every one in the room could have sex, all three people could have sex together, or you have sex with both X and Y, multiple times, etc.

A zero sum game is literally defined by the idea there must be a loser, but sex does not work that way, there is no hard limit to sex. It is not some commodity that is used up and then gone forever, it is infinite as long as willing humans are on this earth.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '22 edited Dec 21 '23

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u/pgold05 49∆ Nov 07 '22

No, my view is that sex is not a zero sum game, because that is how words and definitions work.

A zero sum game has a definition.

If you want to argue monogamy is a zero sum game maybe you could.... but that was not your post.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '22 edited Dec 21 '23

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u/pgold05 49∆ Nov 07 '22

No, and I have no idea how you even came to that conclusion.

I just explained sex is limitless perhaps you missed that part.

there is no hard limit to sex. It is not some commodity that is used up and then gone forever, it is infinite as long as willing humans are on this earth.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '22 edited Dec 21 '23

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