klonkrieger43 t1_j6kle4d wrote
Reply to comment by The_Sown_Rose in All of us have direct ancestors who survived 5 global mass extinctions and outlived the dinosaurs by Arinupa
yeah but a huge lot of them also died long before that.
The_Sown_Rose t1_j6klqpk wrote
How would that work? Everything alive today has an unbroken reproductive line back to the first life on earth, by definition absolutely none of anyone’s direct line ancestors died before reaching reproductive age.
klonkrieger43 t1_j6km5o9 wrote
I am not talking about direct ancestors, but ancestors. A lot of your great-great-great....-aunts and uncles died, because of lacking medicine hygiene, famine, war, accidents and a whole lot of other preventable reasons.
The argument that humanity survived before vaccines is like this dumb tweet that the black plague disappeared on its own. It just killed a third of Europe's population to do so.
kunbish t1_j6lfgpk wrote
Right but an antivaxxer might say something about the strong surviving, dont mess with nature, etc. that argument works in the simplest sense, because it disregards any ancestors that arent direct ones as weak and irrelevant lol. Obviously its a flawed argument when you think critically for more than three seconds.
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