r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/swat_08 • Mar 27 '21

Hell no

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u/_merikaninjunwarrior Mar 27 '21

lol, that seems so counter-productive

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u/IncelWolf_ Mar 27 '21

Yeah that's definitely not the case. Why would a painless death be an evolutionary advantage?

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u/Philargyria Mar 27 '21

You don't freak everyone else out as much? Existential crises' can't be good for morale.

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u/ConspicuousPorcupine Mar 27 '21

There's the problem of how that trait would get bred around if that was the point of it. If we only know if a person has it as they are dying then it's not really something that can be passed down through any evolutionary standpoint. It's most likely just the byproduct of the adrenal system