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Okay fine personal one’s first:
Famous Quote I originally put because I didn’t read the whole post before commenting lol
“Darwin realized that animals are far less likely to reproduce when they’re dead” -Philomena Cunk
Stunned because I was expecting nonsense, but ended up hearing what is now my favorite description of evolution ever. It just makes evolution seem entirely obvious, like it’s stupid we took so long to make that realization.
First of all, that wouldn't be murder. If the only other option was your own death, it would be self defense.
Not saying it would be the moral choice, but it wouldn't be murder.
Secondly, most people would choose that option, when given those choices.
I'm sure about this, because normal people are put in that situation in war, and I'm not aware of many known cases where a soldier simply refused to fire their machine gun for moral reasons, when thousands of enemy soldiers stormed towards their position.
I love you. I'm off to google this Philomena Cunk person but I love you for her quote. It's absolutely brilliant.
So jealous you get to watch the Cunk On ___ docuseries for the first time. They're all super funny.
Watch the series as well!
The evolution one is stunning precisely because it's so good. Evolution finally clicked for me when I asked why reproduction mutations (like colored feathers) mattered instead of only survival ones, my teacher just said "The ones who reproduce, reproduce, the ones who don't, don't."
he has that in common with John Patrick Henry
I love philomena and can’t believe I haven’t heard that one, do you know offhand where it’s from so I can fix that?
Unfortunately not for certain, but I’m guessing it’s somewhere in the “Cunk on Earth” documentary series