Idiot Parents & Merciless Evolution

[RainbowUnicorn]

Looks more like a pandemic of good judgement deficiency, which kind of clarifies the "meh" attitude of those news stories.

What’s the Best 50cc Dirt Bike for Kids?
https://dirtbikeplanet.com/best-50cc-dirt-bike/

EXCERPT: "I generally recommend that kids between three to seven years old ride a 50cc dirt bike. Kids who are 8-10 years old can also ride their old 50cc bike, but at 8 years-old, they would more properly fit a larger bike."


Journalism's sample of public reaction to a 5-year old riding and injuring himself on a dirt bike: "OMG. He has a broken arm and leg."

Journalism's sample of public reaction to a 5-year old shooting himself in the foot: "OMG. What was a five-year old doing with a gun?!"


EDIT addendum: On the bright side, at least they're not helicopter parents.

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Mr Bright side & the Helicopter ambulance for parents...


ive seen some videos which show the parents as being more cave-man like putting the child in direct line of danger to try and baptise the male child.
they do not do it with females.
it is a gender programming thing handed on from parent to parent as gender stereo typing homophobic self idiation.
the parents project their own fears through the child forcing the child into a position of expereincing the life issues that the parent has.

it is probably a variant of the munchausenby proxy in a transferance state while looking at the self by the parent.

you will see the behaviour fairly clearly by the parents.
they will set the child up among other children where the child can injure other children, siblings but not adults, and then the parent projects their own reasoning on to the group of children to justify the damage as a form of validation.
ive lost count of how many times ive seen this.

it does not appear to be soci-ecconomically dependant, however it is easier to see in lower class working class because of scietys normalisation of gender in equality and gender stereo types for a process of profit making.
heavily underpinned by conservative christianity in the usa

[Syne]

So risk taking is an advantageous trait that results in some merciless evolution. I think the two go together. I suppose all animals, just by reproducing, put their progeny at risk to predators in a violent world. I'm going to say that more young die than survive. No mercy, can't feel sorry, has to be that way for life to continue. 

When I rethink this, I'm not even sure if idiots are capable of a good decision. Maybe complacency is more damaging than idiocy.

The risks are the environmental pressures, and overcoming those risks contribute to evolution. Nothing in nature is merciful, as that's a human notion.
Avoiding environmental pressures (complacency) is likely more harmful than a modicum of failure. Facing voluntary risk prepares us for unexpected ones.

[RainbowUnicorn]

So risk taking is an advantageous trait that results in some merciless evolution. I think the two go together. I suppose all animals, just by reproducing, put their progeny at risk to predators in a violent world. I'm going to say that more young die than survive. No mercy, can't feel sorry, has to be that way for life to continue. 

When I rethink this, I'm not even sure if idiots are capable of a good decision. Maybe complacency is more damaging than idiocy.

hatching animals are a primary food source from what i can tell.
thus as you say vastly greater numbers of progeny are killed off as an environmental process of sustainability in the life cycle.

humans appear to be the only species that can freely choose to change its method and interction in that life cycle.
though humans must kill living organisms to survive.

trees and plants are the exception.

off hand i think domesticated breeding stock animals probably have a vastly greater survivability which probably confuses the perception for the average person.

[Zinjanthropos]

humans appear to be the only species that can freely choose to change its method and interction in that life cycle.

Freely choosing to smoke or ingest any type of known carcinogen ..... Merciless evolution or interacting/interfering with evolutionary process? Voluntary risk taking .... Evolution of evolution?