No really. According to Psychology Today, most suicide bombers are Muslim because Islam tolerates polygny (multiple mates). “By allowing some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities, polygyny creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other 50 percent don’t get any wives at all. So polygny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status… to resort to violent means to gain access to mates. [...] The promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr … is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.
I realize that most people don’t frame their existential crises in evolutionary terms (i.e. reproductive capacity), but how does the promise of 72 virgins resolve the reality that you’re never going to sow your seed on earth?
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