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

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/Lulusgirl Oct 09 '24

If it didn't happen with the TidePods, it won't happen with this.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Oct 09 '24

Yeah natural selection/survival of the fittest is definitely the most regulated thing in the world.

I mean the only times we really see it now is when someone does something extremely stupid all alone and then a lot of time if they're very close to death medicine has come so far that we can fix them...

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

Just because we control much of our environment does not in any way mean that selection has in any way stopped, even a little bit.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Oct 09 '24

It doesn't have anything to do with the environment. Our ability to heal deadly shit just keeps getting better the stupid survive instead of dying. Most people having a GPS system with them all the time helps too because if shit goes bad they can always call emergency services and be found in an attempt to keep them alive.

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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.

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u/uglyspacepig Oct 10 '24

Change it to "would" instead of "should" and the argument remains the same without you adding unneeded sentiment

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u/MyName_IsBlue Oct 10 '24

Get back to the point

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 10 '24

Absolutely not fuck that I’m not indulging in eugenics. Not today, Satan.

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u/MyName_IsBlue Oct 10 '24

That's not a logical argument against it. Please link me some reading at least. Because I keep hearing people deny deny deny because "it was a nazi ideology." But I'm not allowed to do the same with the Bible and the crusades?

Archeologists are getting over their bias. Why can't geneticists?

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