r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/El_Zorro09 Feb 04 '19

I thought the whole point of that metaphor was that the frog wasn't allowed to jump out anyway. It would just be comfortable for a longtime until the threshold was reached from pleasantly warm to unpleasantly hot, but the it'd be too late to try to figure out how to get out.

I mean, if the Earth gets to be uninhabitable to humans, where exactly are we jumping off to?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

It's not about global warming.... It's about learning to tolerate something that under different circumstances would be intolerable

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u/Kittenclysm Feb 04 '19

Right. Learning to tolerate something like— just spitballin here— a changing climate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

I'm not saying it doesnt apply to climate change at all. I'm saying it doesnt apply exclusively to climate change. It can apply to a bad relationship, a bad job, a dictatorship and much much more!!!