literally stone age hunter-gatherer societies took care of disabled, wounded, and sick members. we have evidence of successful brain surgeries (no, drilling holes in the skull was not just 'stupid caveman shit', it is a treatment for brain pressure/swelling), whose patients survived several decades, we have bodies missing limbs from early childhood surviving into elderly years, and basically anyone that ever got eaten by a tiger ends up buried with a tiger skull (because the group they belonged to hunted it down after it became a known threat).

like there's some valid worry over drug-resistant bacteria and viruses, but i'd rather maybe live to 90 with drug resistant threats to deal with than live to 30 knowing that the bacteria that killed me could have been easily treated lmfao.

I love how natural selection has become personified by redditbros & co. as some man behind the curtain literally selecting things that are Universally Good™. Surely it couldn't be just the effect of random mutations on an organism's fitness in a particular environment or range of environments

Picturing Steve Buscemi's character in Spy Kids 2 punching the wall when he learns about penicillin

Sleeping in caves is the enemy of natural selection. It lets people with too little body hair survive the cold.

In long-long-long terms it will screw people over when the next big ice-age comes.

The average redditor is a fascist

Eugenics is back

This mf better not be wearing glasses or shoes

Great news! By rejecting modern medicine, you can choose to experience natural selection on your own!

Our desire to save everyone

From the country that posts "You're about to find out why we can't afford healthcare" before launching a billion-dollar salvo of over-priced, clumsily engineered rocket bombs.

letting natural selection run its course

Like, how does this dipshit think natural selection works? Do you just run the algorithm for an extra 10,000 years and get Human-Plus?

You illiterate nob. Natural selection doesn't just stop happening because of modern medicine. Your brain consumes enormous amounts of caloric intact precisely because its vastly more efficient to learn to wash your hands than to hope your hundredth-generational offspring evolves fingers that leak antiseptic.

The point of modern medicine is to capitalize on that capacity for investigative reasoning. Not to simply lay down and submit to our birthed state like a bunch of instinct-driven bacteria.

I sent my son out into the wild with a shield and spear at age 6, modern medicine is making men weak.

Left: Our next generation will be nurtured to achieve their full potential and flourishing

Right: The weak will be purged from our next generation so that only the strong will live in glory

i'm sure the OP in screenshot would be the first to volunteer to die if they contracted an illness that could be treated with modern medicine. surely their argument isn't just an excuse to remove their particular brand of "undesirables"

Elementary school understanding of genetics and mutations

Fuuuuuuck why does social Darwinism appeal to anyone

The people saying this would surrender in less than a day if they were in Gaza.

On a somewhat related note, I saw a post on the other day saying "it's better to die young and give your money to your children and grandchildren than have it drained by the healthcare and retirement system"

Except in the real world where non-lizardpeople live I'm certain most of us would rather have grandma as long as possible.

modern plumbing is the enemy of shitting in a hole in the ground

This was also my opinion when I was like 14 or 15 and almost out of 8th grade. I don't necessarily feel bad about that opinion now, because I was a dumbass teen who spent way too much time on Reddit or speaking to people who might as well have been reddit-clones, but it does make me cringe.

Whenever I see this take all I can think is: teen or libertarian (or both)

The american cdc is trying to contact this user, they're a perfect fit for working on covid policy

I mean, yeah. Fuck natural selection. Shit sucks

If we're gonna have roundabout eugenics

I guess we can start having roundabout gulags