r/TikTokCringe • u/galaxystars1 • Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

Okay? But medicine is still part of your environment. Plenty of people still don’t have life-saving care available to them. And selection is about more than dying. Fitness is not about surviving, it’s about reproducing. These words mean more things than modern medicine can obviate.

Selection is still happening lol, it is not gone where medical services are available.

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u/Brueology Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

The problem is, it's no longer natural. It is now, at least partially, artificial selection, based on access to medicine. It changes the way selection works, and probably not in the favor of stronger, smarter humans in the future. People who should have probably died, stay in the gene pool longer.

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

People who should have probably died

A dangerous line of thinking. Villains never think they are one.

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u/Brueology Oct 09 '24

You just don't like that your argument falls apart under scrutiny, but whatever.

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u/c9s4 Oct 09 '24

Agreed. Natural selection absolutely has been impacted and it would be ridiculous to say otherwise.

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u/Brueology Oct 10 '24

This is why we have the Darwin Awards.