Sometimes I wish we hadn’t get rid of evolutionary pressure in the way that we did. In ancient times, they would’ve died from this and hopefully not reproduced. Unfortunately, so many things that are stupid now carry almost no risk or at least much much less.
I’m glad of course it is like this, because it means that people who shouldn’t have died also benefit from improved medicine etc, so I don’t really want those times to return. But still, sometimes…
I think it’s less about they would have died without having kids, and more about they would have died in some isolated village and their ideas would have died with them.
Now they’re all over the internet spreading their shitty thinks like viruses.
That’s not how humans have ever worked. Superstitious behavior exists in any animal that has the capability to learn.
Every single group of humans has had bad habits created and spread among themselves. Now we have the ability to learn both the good and the bad impacts. There are absolutely people who saw this news story and realized that raw milk is a bad idea.
There are also groups of people who saw this news story and didn’t learn, but as a species we are far better off than we were.
Sometimes I wish we hadn’t get rid of evolutionary pressure in the way that we did. In ancient times, they would’ve died from this and hopefully not reproduced. Unfortunately, so many things that are stupid now carry almost no risk or at least much much less.
I’m glad of course it is like this, because it means that people who shouldn’t have died also benefit from improved medicine etc, so I don’t really want those times to return. But still, sometimes…
I think it’s less about they would have died without having kids, and more about they would have died in some isolated village and their ideas would have died with them.
Now they’re all over the internet spreading their shitty thinks like viruses.
That’s not how humans have ever worked. Superstitious behavior exists in any animal that has the capability to learn.
Every single group of humans has had bad habits created and spread among themselves. Now we have the ability to learn both the good and the bad impacts. There are absolutely people who saw this news story and realized that raw milk is a bad idea.
There are also groups of people who saw this news story and didn’t learn, but as a species we are far better off than we were.