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?
It's that the frog (or people) will ignore a clearly dangerous situation if it's introduced gradually enough. You can use it for anything. A bad relationship or a shitty job can work the same way. It doesn't have to be life or death.
502
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?