Meanwhile, some animals give birth standing up and the baby is ready to go shortly after. Nature is wild.
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Nature is wild.
Case in point — Some animals give live birth to pregnant daughters:
A typical life cycle involves flightless females giving live birth to female nymphs who may also be already pregnant, an adaptation scientists call telescoping generations—without the involvement of males.
Woah 🤯
Do people before modern medicine just die?
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Yeah, actually. A lot of them did.
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We have actually evolved to need medical care in child birth for various reasons. The pelvis has shrunk and babies heads are larger now than they were thousands of yesrs ago, making natural birth a much more complicated thing than our ancient ancestors went through.
It's a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.
Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.
Intelligent design my ass
No, literally. My ass is a counterargument to intelligent design. Bruh I had to have surgery as an infant and still have chronic constipation.
Oh yea I have depression…
I had wondered.
A female friend once remarked to me that giving birth makes as much sense as exiting your car by crawling out through the exhaust pipe.
My sister's first pregnancy was high-risk and she needed a c-section. She went on to get pregnant twice more. When I asked her why take the risk, she told me "because I get a kid out of it". 🤷♀️
Creating a new life is beautiful thing if the mother cares about their children as individuals and want to nurture them.
It's so fucking tragic if the mother only seeks control, see their kids as puppets, as their limbs that they have to right to manipulate however they with.
I'm just so confused my I was even born.
Like... why... why even violate government birth control policy to have me, someone who wasn't supposed to be born... just so I can get tormented throught my entire childhood...
why, mom
what the fuck...
That's the same reason for me, I want to birth children even though I sadly can't due to lacking a uterus. I actually like the idea of undergoing pregnancy.
Women die in child birth now pretty regularly.
Modern medicine has greatly improved things but giving birth is pretty crazy.
Beyond all the defects and things you talk about human babies are absolutely helpless for 5 years at a minimum and need parental care until about 15 years.
Eh, need is a strong word past maybe 6-7. Humans aren't as dumb as many adults would make you think.
... Not to say they'd be well off, nor would such a life be easy by any means, but like... if an animal can survive in the wild, we usually say they're fine, even if they'll live 1/3rd as long in the wild as in captivity on average.
A six year old feeding and caring for itself? Come on man.
There are plenty of accounts of children surviving in the wilderness for shockingly long periods of time. Sure, they're not well fed and without disease in most cases, but that happens in the wild a lot more than most people care to contemplate.
Natural Selection doesn't care if any individual is happy with its situation. All that matters is if the individual manages to reproduce successfully.
Miserable people having miserable children who go on to produce more miserable children. As long as you don't get so miserable that there isn't some miserable person out there willing to bang you and create more miserable people despite the misery, your suffering doesn't rate a second glance.
Evolution gets it right enough. It's the universe saying, "Meh", and going back to bed.
All that matters is if the individual manages to reproduce successfully.
I gave a big middle finger to natural selection.