i learned recently that this is a false premise; the frogs will get out when the water gets too warm for them. which imo makes its proliferation even more apt; it makes sense that they would, but we've so used to the narrative that we keep this factoid going without questioning it.
Unless you're shot in the legs or your injury would otherwise impede you from standing, you wouldn't naturally fall down.
However, movies and TV have drilled it into our minds that you fall from being shot to the point that we DO fall because we're SO DAMN CONVINCED that that's what happens!
hmmm, like they don't do a Hollywood fall, but they do often just drop. sack of potatoes style. there's a lot of stuff in you that could make you stop standing if it got shot. it's not guaranteed, but depending on caliber, it can be quite likely that they will fall. just straight down or in the direction of their existing momentum usually.
Isn't the thing less about them not getting out, but about them getting out way later than if the water was hotter initially?
I don't remember that it was implied that they would die from overheating - just that their reaction is delayed as the body gets used to higher temperatures
not only that imo, with this extra layer it serves to illustrate how the complacency is not innate. everybody has a breaking point, but we have been told that we will just take it if it is gradual enough.
Or, I don't talk politics to YOU. I talk politics all the time, even people I know hard disagree with me on major things. The thing is, we can stay civil, if hard facts are introduced that prove a point one person is making, or show why someone's idea is wrong, it will be actually considered. When I say this, it is usually because I know that person can't do this, or I am in an environment where this can hurt my life, like work.
We're sprinting toward WW3 and subsequent nuclear Armageddon on at least two different fronts right now, but that won't be a slowly increasing boil, that will several big "booms" preceded by some heat blasts that are hot enough to melt concrete.