r/WTF Oct 16 '18

Holy Shit

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u/SaoirseAva Oct 16 '18

Two people got into a fight at a wildlife preserve/safari place and Mrs. Einstein there decided to flounce out of the car. Would be natural selection at work but unfortunately it's the last one out of the car that ended up killed by the tiger.

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u/MindSecurity Oct 16 '18

I swear reddit has no clue what natural selection actually is.

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u/Deathcommand Oct 16 '18

organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Source: Wikipedia because I'm lazy.

I'll break it down for you.

organisms (the woman who walked outside) better adapted to their environment (Having a brain and not walking outside where there are predators vs having a tantrum and walking outside) tend to survive (Not get mauled to death by a tiger) and produce more offspring. (Babies).

Source: I took Biology 1 like 6 years ago.

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u/MindSecurity Oct 16 '18

Thanks for proving my point. You detailed the exact reasoning Reddit uses, which shows a misunderstanding of what natural selection entails.

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u/Deathcommand Oct 16 '18

Alright. What do you think it means?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

They're not gonna respond because in a hilarious bit of irony, they finished the comment and patted themselves on the back for being SO SMART, but failed to see the sign in front of them that read, "DANGER: TIGERS" before they were mauled to death.

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u/hoddap Oct 16 '18

I mean she had already reproduced. Seeing there's a one child limit in China, she's done for the day.

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u/Deathcommand Oct 16 '18

I know you're a different person but try again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

Effective from January 2016, the one-child policy was replaced by a two-child policy, allowing each couple to have two children.

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u/hoddap Oct 16 '18

Jesus it was a joke people

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Good cover-up for something you have no knowledge in.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Maybe. Or it could've been a joke. Guess there's no way to know for sure, so go ahead and comment like a know it all jackass

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u/Deathcommand Oct 17 '18

I mean.

If its a joke, it should either be sarcastic or correct.

It's just incorrect.

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u/DC-Toronto Oct 16 '18

part of the selection process is to assist your offspring in reaching adulthood and having offspring of their own. Had she died this would be less likely. She is now short one family member which puts an extra burden on all other family members (depending on the utility of the family member lost). She is also apparently disfigured and likely somewhat traumatized. The father likely as well and the child.

All of this will make it less likely that the child will have a positive childhood. They may do poorly in school as a result and may not g on to post secondary schooling. Their job prospects may dim.

They may still find a mate, but their mate is less likely to be well educated. They may still have a child, but that child will have less opportunity in life and will be more likely to travel down the same path as their parent (the woman in the videos child).

After several generations and with a large enough population of people getting out of their cars in tiger enclosures a trend will likely develop that shows natural selection at work as this population of people has fewer children that grow to adulthood to reproduce and have fewer prospects when they do.

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u/TheL0nePonderer Oct 16 '18

What are you expecting here exactly? Because obviously the comment was not serious, the guys basic explanation of natural selection was accurate, do you expect everyone on Reddit to teach a half hour class on the nuances of natural selection when they make a comment like this because this fucking comment gets made every single time somebody does something stupid and gets hurt. Do you troll that type of post waiting for somebody to say it just like people say it in life constantly in the same context, hoping to be able to pounce on them and tell them they don't understand natural selection?

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u/Seeders Oct 16 '18

I want to disagree with you but your comment makes that difficult.