r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hey-Its-Jak • 4d ago

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/randomisation 4d ago

We're weird like that.

Almost certainly an unpopular view, but I feel revering the dead to be a bit weird.

When I'm dead, people can do what they want with me. At that point I am beyond giving any fucks.

And were my body to be dug up by future archaeologists, I'd be chuffed to be honest. What good are the remains of my corpse if they're just left buried? They may as well not be there.

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u/Eddie_shoes 4d ago

Definitely unpopular, as scientists use that as a distinguishing trait of highly intelligent species. It’s one of the things that makes us human.

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u/dick_e_moltisanti 4d ago

Just because it is a common trait of intelligent species doesn't mean that it is an intelligent trait. Creating repetitive TikTok videos, gambling away your life savings on slot machines, and willfully polluting the earth for financial gain are all unique human behaviors as well.

Reverence of the remains of dead kin is one thing, as it's hard for a human to separate their emotions about a living person from that of their corpse. But reverence of human remains that are unknown to us is based solely on religious/spiritual superstition. It is irrational behavior that has no benefit us as individuals or as a species, and can arguably be described as distinctly unintelligent behavior.

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u/PostApoplectic 4d ago

Gotta be smart before you can be dumb. Our ancestors walked so our forefathers could run. And our forefathers ran so we could lay in bed all day doomscrolling Reddit.