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There's no such thing as unnatural selection, weak selection
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There's no such thing as unnatural selection, weak selection
There's no such thing as unnatural selection, weak selection, fake selection, suspension of selection, or whatever name you give it. There is only natural selection.
Some people say "Oh natural selection never gets its way these days because of medical technology". No. Natural selection is always there, and natural selection doesn't care how "tough" a living thing is. It only cares whether you're adapted to your environment or not.
Survival of the fittest means "Survival of the best adapted organism". What's "fit" in one environment may not be so fit in another. Intelligence can be a negative trait in some environments.
Further, natural selection isn't an intelligent being that decides to eliminate "the weak". Natural selection is natural, it doesn't care what you are.
Just because a disabled person who speaks funny is dependent on machines or carers or whatever, doesn't mean they were "meant" to die. If they're alive that means they're sufficiently adapted, and that's all natural selection cares about.
You might say, "because of technology there's no pressure to be intelligent so there's stupid people being born everywhere that don't get weeded out". Well, evolution was never meant to go in a straight line anyway. We could "evolve" into dumber beings, if being smart isn't neccessary anymore. But that doesn't suddenly mean that retards and stupid people are "meant" to die. Saying they're "meant" to die is no better than believing in a false god.
So to wrap it up natural selection isn't a god, natural selection isn't a person and it doesn't give a shit about anything. It's just the logic of the universe.
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lolthis. This entirely.
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This.
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Fucking this.
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Jesusaurisrex Wrote:disabled people cant adapt to a knife in their head. MY BLADE IS NATURAL SELECTION MOTHERFUCKERS.
FUCK YEAH! CAN'T GO AGAINST NATURAL SELECTION!
lol, Honestly, while we've set it up to where all this technology is saving our asses, when natural selection allows fucking idiots to live, soon, these people will be too stupid to use our own technology, and we'll go extinct. Leaving only mountain men and tribal people. Oh the lulz.
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CrayolaColours Wrote:Jesusaurisrex Wrote:disabled people cant adapt to a knife in their head. MY BLADE IS NATURAL SELECTION MOTHERFUCKERS.
FUCK YEAH! CAN'T GO AGAINST NATURAL SELECTION!
lol, Honestly, while we've set it up to where all this technology is saving our asses, when natural selection allows fucking idiots to live, soon, these people will be too stupid to use our own technology, and we'll go extinct. Leaving only mountain men and tribal people. Oh the lulz.
And rednecks, can't forget rednecks. Although not the smartest, they will survive!
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Re: There's no such thing as unnatural selection, weak selection
MorikoMisa Wrote:CrayolaColours Wrote:Jesusaurisrex Wrote:disabled people cant adapt to a knife in their head. MY BLADE IS NATURAL SELECTION MOTHERFUCKERS.
FUCK YEAH! CAN'T GO AGAINST NATURAL SELECTION!
lol, Honestly, while we've set it up to where all this technology is saving our asses, when natural selection allows fucking idiots to live, soon, these people will be too stupid to use our own technology, and we'll go extinct. Leaving only mountain men and tribal people. Oh the lulz.
And rednecks, can't forget rednecks. Although not the smartest, they will survive!
As they're like roaches, they just don't die.
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This is why I hang around them so often, they will protect me from everything with their guns, trucks and trucker hats.
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Eventually we'll get to the point where we have no choice but to impose artificial selection.
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Eh, we still evolve. We just don't evolve as biologically fast anymore. Our new way of adapting is to develop technology that allows us to survive wherever we want. In a way it's actually better, because new traits (ideas) can spread throughout the current population and there's no need to wait for many generations before it becomes common.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
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