David Van Horn wrote:
> The concept of adultery is, at its core, a property crime.

That may be how it's presented in some belief systems, but the roots are far
more straight forward and biological.  When you look at it strictly in a
Darwinian way, it makes perfect sense why adultery is considered a serious
offence.  Its interesting to note that in this context adultery by a woman
is a more serious threat to the man than adultery by a man is to the woman,
and the pervailing attitudes roughly reflect that.  For a man the problem is
loss of success for his genes, for a woman it is a likely loss in resources.
Biologically we are all still cavemen, and laws and morality can't stray too
far from the basic underlying reality.


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