Well, I think what other people are saying, mainly the women, is that concepts like dishonesty and honor and loyalty are really not biological at all, but societally taught to us. It is not a biological response, but a learned behavior.
Uhm... if you look back at how humans evolved... I could debate that one...
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There is no evidence that I know of to link dishonesty and maternal instinct. That's a stretch. But you did say it was Your theory. Not one many women would want to embrace for obvious reasons.
When looked through the 'lens' of honor, 'dishonesty' takes on a negative connotation. But as Mo pointed out... our behaviors may be viewed as dishonest, simply because we are the weaker sex. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive. If I'm in the wild and my protector dies, I'm in the market for another one. Not because I need to feel all 'in love,' but because I need to protect my children. I would have the new man's babies to bond him to me. Loyalty. The new man may take offspring in as his own because he has his own with me. And none of that really has anything to do with love.
However. Look how SG and Ms. IC came in to defend their H's. Loyalty. IC came real close to breaking Ms. IC's loyalty, and not to go down a dark alley... but if that R were to have crumbled, I bet money she'd fight tooth and nail to keep her girls... not that IC would fight any less... but from a mother's standpoint, those are her babies... that's how she'd feel about it, I bet.
Societal progress, and the notion of 'romantic' love has changed lots of things. I just think the underlying biological coding is still there, and affects us in ways we probably never consider.
