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Old people aren't breeding - no natural selection.
by rezeroed 7y ago
Old people aren't breeding - no natural selection.
- mirchibajji 7y agoThere are second order effects like: Old people taking care of the grand children so the parents can do other things. Old people sharing their experiences directly or indirectly with the younger generation etc.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoThis is why lazy Darwinian hand-waving is - let's be blunt - stupid and naive. By the time you get to a complex human culture, everything is about second and third order effects. We're here debating whether or not it's Darwinian that Covid-19 disproportionately affects old people, while the second and third order effects are a recession (if we're lucky and clever) and a depression (if we're neither). Given where we are as a species right now, both of those will have a much bigger impact on long-term human viability than any immediate deaths.