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Is it wrong of me to think "evolution in action" here?

by rmah 3y ago

samtho 3y ago
The basic idea behind the Darwin Awards.
rekabis 3y ago
We should really remove all warning labels, and let evolution pour a little bleach into the shallow end of the gene pool. We’ve bubble-wrapped far too much of humanity, especially in western societies. And while everyone is entitled to their own life (excepting some of the most egregious of murderers), what we are not entitled to is artificial insulation from the consequences of our actions and decisions.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  2008 ass edgelord shit I've been reading this for decades and its never made any more sense. This pseudo-rational malicious superiority complex is such a weird affectation where do you all even learn this stuff is there like a school or. You are just openly and frankly advocating for more preventable harm and death this is not normal behavior.
  - michaelmrose 3y ago
    You should have learned how and why we treat water several times in the course of science class and if you missed it anyone who hikes around the great outdoors who took the time to look up anything whatsoever would have been apt to find instructions on the danger of "raw water". Furthermore these people aren't folks who wandered by and saw a water feature fit to slake their thirst they deliberately sought it out. They are emphatically so stupid it would actually be a shame if they had kids. Nobody actually walks around pulling off warning labels and hoping people hurt themselves. People in general do as they did here and go to extensive efforts to keep said idiots from harming themselves, then turn around and live in a society that is worse off for having the idiots. This is why people blow of steam by saying spiteful things on the internet. This is emphatically normal.
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ASalazarMX 3y ago
Not at all. If some of them adapt to contaminated water, they'll be more hydrated than the ones with bloody diarrhea, and pass their resistance to their descendants.
- morkalork 3y ago
  Given that humans haven't adapted 100% to "raw water" after millennia of evolution, the odds aren't really in their favor.
  - gobengo 3y ago
    millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
    - morkalork 3y ago
      Why don't you go out and drink raw water for a while and report back after.
    - fluoridation 3y ago
      The question is whether drinking contaminated water has a survival advantage. It could have one if clean water is so scarce to the point that you're more likely to die of thirst before reproductive age than of bacterial infection.
    - olodus 3y ago
      Millenia is however a bloody long time to have daily diarrhea. But I commend them for trying. Good luck.
  - ars 3y ago
    People who grow up with untreated water do in fact have resistance to the pathogens in it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea

Is it wrong of me to think "evolution in action" here?

by rmah 3y ago

Is it wrong of me to think "evolution in action" here?

samtho 3y ago

The basic idea behind the Darwin Awards.

rekabis 3y ago

We should really remove all warning labels, and let evolution pour a little bleach into the shallow end of the gene pool. We’ve bubble-wrapped far too much of humanity, especially in western societies. And while everyone is entitled to their own life (excepting some of the most egregious of murderers), what we are not entitled to is artificial insulation from the consequences of our actions and decisions.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
2008 ass edgelord shit I've been reading this for decades and its never made any more sense. This pseudo-rational malicious superiority complex is such a weird affectation where do you all even learn this stuff is there like a school or. You are just openly and frankly advocating for more preventable harm and death this is not normal behavior.
- michaelmrose 3y ago
  You should have learned how and why we treat water several times in the course of science class and if you missed it anyone who hikes around the great outdoors who took the time to look up anything whatsoever would have been apt to find instructions on the danger of "raw water". Furthermore these people aren't folks who wandered by and saw a water feature fit to slake their thirst they deliberately sought it out. They are emphatically so stupid it would actually be a shame if they had kids. Nobody actually walks around pulling off warning labels and hoping people hurt themselves. People in general do as they did here and go to extensive efforts to keep said idiots from harming themselves, then turn around and live in a society that is worse off for having the idiots. This is why people blow of steam by saying spiteful things on the internet. This is emphatically normal.
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ASalazarMX 3y ago

Not at all. If some of them adapt to contaminated water, they'll be more hydrated than the ones with bloody diarrhea, and pass their resistance to their descendants.

morkalork 3y ago
Given that humans haven't adapted 100% to "raw water" after millennia of evolution, the odds aren't really in their favor.
- gobengo 3y ago
  millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
  - morkalork 3y ago
    Why don't you go out and drink raw water for a while and report back after.
  - fluoridation 3y ago
    The question is whether drinking contaminated water has a survival advantage. It could have one if clean water is so scarce to the point that you're more likely to die of thirst before reproductive age than of bacterial infection.
  - olodus 3y ago
    Millenia is however a bloody long time to have daily diarrhea. But I commend them for trying. Good luck.
- ars 3y ago
  People who grow up with untreated water do in fact have resistance to the pathogens in it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea