• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe
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    6 months ago

    Pretty sure in the past, nature of the world itself had a lot to do with a vast majority of the deaths. Not a lot of time to consider suicide, when disease, nature and starvation are killing faster than we breed.

    These days humanity has too much time to get into our own heads. Nature never intended for an animal to be as successful and destructive as humans today.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah our brains don’t stop thinking but I’m not sure we can say what the limits of “nature’s” intentions are. As sophisticated as we are, we are still “nature”, just fancier tools. I understand what you’re saying though. Our survival functions get applied to new things that they may not have initially evolved to do. We’re still evolving though.