Message from @Beemann
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So under the natural selection argument, abortion is nonsensical, since you're reducing the number of potential offspring
You are reducing weak offspring
They'd be reduced anyway
and it would be free
And abortion is used on non weak offspring
Abortions aren't free
Starvation is
Under natural selection yes. Nowadays, no
i was talking about starvation
Right so we shouldn't adhere to natural selection, yes?
to an extent, i think we should
You can't artificially induce natural selection by definition
sure i can
if natural selection is let idiots who don't wear helmets on motorcycles die, then yes.
You can, but you wouldnt
Go full sparta and throw disabled babies off a cliff.
No, it's not natural if you do it artificially
I mean, natural selection would also imply no medicine etc
Not necessarily
You can do it naturally too
You can have it naturally if you want
curing cancer by chemo isn't natural
Hence i can't fully support natural selection
Animals abandoning babies. Is that natural or no?
Remove the safety nets
depends on the animal really
medicine spits in the fact of natural selection, outside of eating things that have medicinal properties
Are we going anprim in here?
anprim?
Anarcho primitive
Nope
dafuq is that? 😛
Lol
You are the one taking it there
Enforced caveman existence
depends how much you view "fucking with your body with artificially created medicines" as still being natural selection
No, I wasn't the one saying we should stop using medicine
"Natural selection can only be done naturally" paraphrasing
Yes
enforced caveman existence? thats just plain idiocy 😛
As in you cant induce natural selection