Biology Revisited

So I realize I said that everything is based on biology and blah blah blah. But upon discussing this with a few of my friends, they made me see that reexamining my theories, or just looking at them in a different way, could shed some light on a few things. You see, a few weeks back I read an article, and in that article was a list of reasons that men and women get together. It was called "6 Factors that Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex With." Let's just say it left me feeling more than ever that biology was always the culprit. As it's name suggests, it wasn't very romantic. If I remember correctly one of the factors said that men and women are pretty much attracted to each other right when they kiss and here's why: all of us have a cluster of chromosomes in our bodies called MHC which controls part of our immune system. When you kiss someone, your body takes immediate note of how strong the other person's immune system is. So, what does that mean exactly? That within the first few seconds of spit-swapping fun, you're really giving the other person a taste/scent test to see if their pheromones and/or saliva contain the coveted levels of MHC. Ya know, so the immune systems of your children will be more diverse! Yay.

Having said all that, I realized that I failed to consider the one thing that human beings have that other animals don't: the ability to reason and have logical thought. I mean granted, it fails us more often than not, but it's there. So here's what I've been thinking: of all the factors the influence our choices in who to sleep with, could one of them possibly be choice based on logical thought? I mean, there must be an attraction, I get that. But can we override the rules of attraction and copulate with someone completely out of our own personal norm? I'm talking guys without beards here people. I'm talking the nice guy, the guy who's children wouldn't have the ideal immune system. And if we did this, could it also not have an expiration date? Could we marry these people? I think out of all of the jerks that I've dated, and out of some of the nice ones as well, only a handful of these logical choices have lasted more than a few months. But maybe they weren't logical choices to begin with? The point is I have no idea. And I'm not sure there is a way, given all these factors, to really know. I'm sure there are a large amount of people who would say that these relationships are doomed to fail, that the factors are just too stacked against it ever working. There are also a lot of optimists out there. I'd have to say, right now, that science still wins for me. The evidence is just too strong to deny. If we do try to override all or most of these factors, the odds of it working out in the long run are still slim.

But they do happen. I know they do. So what do you think?