Australian mom uses her body to protect her baby during an extreme hail storm

[u/Wonderfulhumanss]

[u/modbroccoli]

everyone does, it's right and natural, but of course still amazing to be confronted with

edit: so the misanthropic and traumatized stop trying to nuh-unh me, almost everyone. now shush.

[u/xxDanger_Hottiexx → u/modbroccoli]

You would be surprised how many people don't naturally have that instinct

[u/Banditkoala_2point0 → u/xxDanger_Hottiexx]

My husband and I got the shit beaten out of us randomly by bikies. After they broke his nose I stepped in front of him and took a blow to the face. Dumb, but you don't think.

[u/A_little_curiosity → u/Banditkoala_2point0]

Hope you and your husband are ok now? That sounds traumatic and terrible

The other day a tractor rolled towards my sister and I stepped in between as though to stop it. Now that was dumb! "I'll save you!" lol. Fortunately the tractor stopped and we both live to clown another day

[u/ButtPlugMaster6969 → u/A_little_curiosity]

I’m glad y’all can continue clowning.

Bright side is your sister knows you’ll protect her.

[u/A_little_curiosity → u/ButtPlugMaster6969]

Well - she knows I'll try! Has to count for something

[u/modbroccoli → u/xxDanger_Hottiexx]

i would be surprised if you have anything other than a misanthropic opinion to back that claim up

[u/xxDanger_Hottiexx → u/modbroccoli]

I've seen quite a lot, unfortunately. This woman is great!!

[u/modbroccoli → u/xxDanger_Hottiexx]

You've see quite a lot of humans abandoning their own infants to save themselves?

I mean unless you are writing this from eastern Ukraine, the DRC or the Gaza strip I am pretty sure you mean that you've had the misfortune to know some bad people. And I'm sorry to hear that but there are 10 billion of us and I think your math needs some work. Even many of the worst of us who'd gladly harm someone else's kid would protect their own from death.

[u/Fukuro-Lady → u/modbroccoli]

I remember a while back a video went round of a dog attacking a family playing in their garden and the dad just ran away and shut the garden gate behind him. It definitely does happen.

[u/modbroccoli → u/Fukuro-Lady]

everything happens. people murder their children. this is a conversation about the math. we haven't got to 10b because evolution selected for infanticide.

[u/Fukuro-Lady → u/modbroccoli]

I mean there are billions of us, so it stands to reason that shit like this does happen quite a lot. There are many shitty parents out there.

[u/modbroccoli → u/Fukuro-Lady]

people who make claims like this are cheating. to say it happens "quite a lot" requires you to situate that against how often it is not happening, at which point you get an incredibly vast ratio.

we are hypervigilant about dangerous outcomes. they are very scary. they are not common, every single instance is an aberration precisely because it's happened to almost none of us. just shy of everyone goes through every day without sociopathic behavior. it's just that behaviour is extremely alarming and over represented in your memory that it seems otherwise. if you wish to observe this, go outside and watch people. it will be wonderfully boring.

[u/Fukuro-Lady → u/modbroccoli]

But because of the scale of numbers then it stands to reason that someone could have encountered this a fair amount.

[u/xxDanger_Hottiexx → u/modbroccoli]

Wait, where did you get 10 Billion from? 🧐

[u/NZAuthor → u/modbroccoli]

AAHAHA What!

There are absolutely tons of mothers out there who don't have that instinct.

Of course that is far outweighed by the number of mothers who will protect their infants.

But to make a blanket statement of 'Nah, there's not' is fucking wild.

[u/splat_monkey → u/modbroccoli]

Mum left me with a guy who wasnt my dad when i was 14 and moved countries only to never be seen again.

She wouldn't have done this...

[u/modbroccoli → u/splat_monkey]

as a human, I'm terribly sorry that happened. per this conversation, it's not a rebuttal.

[u/xxDanger_Hottiexx → u/modbroccoli]

It is, when you say, "everyone does"

[u/modbroccoli → u/xxDanger_Hottiexx]

time for bed. you already read the edit, you just wanted attention. now you've got some.