literally stone age hunter-gatherer societies took care of disabled, wounded, and sick members. we have evidence of successful brain surgeries (no, drilling holes in the skull was not just 'stupid caveman shit', it is a treatment for brain pressure/swelling), whose patients survived several decades, we have bodies missing limbs from early childhood surviving into elderly years, and basically anyone that ever got eaten by a tiger ends up buried with a tiger skull (because the group they belonged to hunted it down after it became a known threat).
like there's some valid worry over drug-resistant bacteria and viruses, but i'd rather maybe live to 90 with drug resistant threats to deal with than live to 30 knowing that the bacteria that killed me could have been easily treated lmfao.
I love how natural selection has become personified by redditbros & co. as some man behind the curtain literally selecting things that are Universally Good™. Surely it couldn't be just the effect of random mutations on an organism's fitness in a particular environment or range of environments
Picturing Steve Buscemi's character in Spy Kids 2 punching the wall when he learns about penicillin
Sleeping in caves is the enemy of natural selection. It lets people with too little body hair survive the cold.In long-long-long terms it will screw people over when the next big ice-age comes.
Eugenics is back
Our desire to save everyone
From the country that posts "You're about to find out why we can't afford healthcare" before launching a billion-dollar salvo of over-priced, clumsily engineered rocket bombs.
letting natural selection run its course
Like, how does this dipshit think natural selection works? Do you just run the algorithm for an extra 10,000 years and get Human-Plus?
You illiterate nob. Natural selection doesn't just stop happening because of modern medicine. Your brain consumes enormous amounts of caloric intact precisely because its vastly more efficient to learn to wash your hands than to hope your hundredth-generational offspring evolves fingers that leak antiseptic.
The point of modern medicine is to capitalize on that capacity for investigative reasoning. Not to simply lay down and submit to our birthed state like a bunch of instinct-driven bacteria.
Elementary school understanding of genetics and mutations
This guy should go and Steve Jobs himself if he hates modern medicine so much.
The people saying this would surrender in less than a day if they were in Gaza.
On a somewhat related note, I saw a post on
the other day saying "it's better to die young and give your money to your children and grandchildren than have it drained by the healthcare and retirement system"Except in the real world where non-lizardpeople live I'm certain most of us would rather have grandma as long as possible.
This was also my opinion when I was like 14 or 15 and almost out of 8th grade. I don't necessarily feel bad about that opinion now, because I was a dumbass teen who spent way too much time on Reddit or speaking to people who might as well have been reddit-clones, but it does make me cringe.
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Obviously this is a bad argument but it's also bad science.
Medicine didn't stop or break natural selection. Nothing stops natural selection.
Our homeboy doesn't point at a beaver dam and fall to their knees, crying out in anguish over how beavers have wrecked natural selection so what's the big deal when we also create things that improve our chances of survival?
People still have car crashes and natural disasters still happen. People die from asthma in the developed world all the time. People that have a disposition towards being too reckless or too aggressive are going to be statistically more likely to die by misadventure. People who are "insufficiently" social are much less likely to procreate.
Natural selection doesn't give a fuck about medicine and medicine doesn't remove selective pressure.
If they want to live in a world without humans changing the landscape that selective pressure exists within then they're welcome to strip naked, walk into their nearest wilderness and subsist by foraging for food without making any shelter or tools. In fact, I'd encourage them to do exactly that because the world would be a better place if the people who invoke natural selection in the place of an argument showed their commitment to natural selection.
If we're gonna have roundabout eugenics
I guess we can start having roundabout gulags
It never left
I mean, yeah. Fuck natural selection. Shit sucks
It's never left sadly.
Putting this guy in the woods with a box of matches, a knife, and a go-pro. Leaning back in my chair and watching.
It's not like this whole society we live in wasn't originated from some monkies learning to take care of another monkey who broke their leg long enough that the bones fused back together
eugenics never left 🤷🏼
I for one think it's wonderful to question what we think we know. Such thoughtful consideration will eventually yield good results. Maybe we'll come back to where we started but with a more firm underpinning as to why exactly we believe it. Or maybe we won't, and that's often good too, in order to cast off false beliefs e.g. in believing in Santa Claus or a childish view of a God who grants our every good wish but demands nothing in return. The important thing I always keep in mind is that TRUTH has nothing whatsoever to fear from honest inquiry.
Also, interestingly enough, we seem to be on the cusp of being able to rewrite our own DNA, thus what genes we have at any given moment may not matter to people in a hundred years from now:-P.
