And neither did vitamin D supplements, although the need to consume vitamin-D-rich foods like dairy to stay healthy is theorized to be why white people evolved lactose tolerance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
But to be serious about it for a second, even pale people who've spent most of their lives working outdoors in the sun rarely get skin cancer early enough that it affects their chance at having kids From an evolutionary standpoint that's all that matters
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Replying to @Woman4W @LizardOrman and
I mean, in the sense that water flowing downhill has a "goal", sure, and in the same sense that if the direction the land slopes suddenly changes then the river's course and its eventual "goal" change just as suddenly
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Replying to @Woman4W @LizardOrman and
There is no "goal", the river doesn't "want" to empty in any particular place And this isn't academic nitpicking because the delusion of telos that underlies eugenics is a very common prejudice that's used to justify real-life discrimination against real-life humans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Woman4W and
I mean, like Dr. Manhattan says, there is no "end", nothing ever "ends" Humans aren't the "pinnacle" or "endpoint" of anything, if we all die in a nuclear war tomorrow and there's nothing left but cockroaches that's just as much evolution as anything that happened before now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Woman4W and
Even if evolution DID have a goal, i'm not sure why it's my problem. Evolution doesn't pay my salary.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Or on the other hand, since I am a product of evolution, whatever I do was evolution's 'goal.'
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Woman4W and
Right, the TERF shit about how trans people "defy biology" There's nothing to defy Everything we human beings do IS biology, there's no meaningful philosophical distinction
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It's no different than saying an all-powerful God disapproves of my actions He's all-powerful, he's the one who made me do it in the first place, and if he wants to stop me he will
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