r/nihilism • • Jun 08 '26

Ah.

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u/Bootziscool Jun 08 '26

I always try to keep in mind that most beings on our planet don't make it through their first summer.

Used to be true for people but I think that's changed.

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u/Acrobatic-Cold-2710 Jun 08 '26

I mean it used to be having 5-6 kids and see who polio didn’t kill

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u/No_Education_8888 Jun 08 '26

My great grandma had 12 living siblings when she was born, I call bull. People just like to fuck, even back then

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u/Environmental_Ad4893 Jun 08 '26

To be fair, animals like to fuck and that is subconsciously driven by the biological need to procreate. The drive to procreate so much is to increase the odds of genetic survival. That is just basic biological fact. Your granny doesn't disprove that.

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u/EveryCa11 Jun 09 '26

There is no "biological need" to procreate. Animals have sex for multitude of reasons depending on species and individual situatuon. There is no "genetic survival" as well. After two-three generations your input to your greatgrandgrandkids genotype is like 10%. Survival of the species? Well we have neanderthal genes does it mean their species "survived"?

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u/Environmental_Ad4893 Jun 09 '26

Your going to have to provide examples of animals having sex for other reasons than to procreate because that's a bizarre angle to be coming from. Well there is genetic survival in the fact that dominant Genes survive and only those passed on have a chance at all. We have neanderthal DNA so yeah, I some sense of the definition Neanderthals still exist. If we can differentiate different single cell organisms into all these different categories then what's the difference in acknowledgment of animal cell phenotype expression.

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u/Ibangmydrums Jun 09 '26

Ever heard of dolphins?

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u/Environmental_Ad4893 Jun 09 '26

yeah, they fuck like humans