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Or is it the victim themselves for going near a bear? Or is it the victim's ancestors, who made sure they were alive in the first place, thus setting the stage
by kdmccormick 3y ago
Or is it the victim themselves for going near a bear?
Or is it the victim's ancestors, who made sure they were alive in the first place, thus setting the stage for their guaranteed death?
- dkersten 3y agoDeep. Just like the cuts from the bear claws.
- biofunsf 3y agoMust be our ancestors fault. They did a good job at contributing to the extinction of many megafauna (in addition to Paleocene climate changes), but didn’t quite get all the bears. How lazy of them. Though fun-fact: California used to have an endemic subspecies of Grizzly bear that was entirely wiped out by the European settlers. I can’t really fault them for this... times were tough back then. Some Grizzly Bears have re-enter California from the north in more recent times. Makes me realize that in certain contexts ecological preservation is a privilege. If there’s a 2% chance a Grizzly is going to kill my darling child Timmy, I’m okay with wiping them out and worrying about the ramifications later. I’m not going to risk little Timmy being eaten to preserve some amorphous concept of natural balance. Fortunately we don’t live in that world any longer. (And >0.05% risk of Timmy being eaten is acceptable to me, since this is on par with many other risks)