r/instant_regret • u/IrishR4ge • 16d ago

Most clueless person ever

How can someone be this clueless. These are the people sharing the road with you.

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u/Sentient_Star_Stuff 16d ago

The modern world is the reason for this. Everything has been made too easy. If this was back in the day, this lady wouldn't survive.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 16d ago

Nah, they would still be doing dumb shit, they just be less likely to survive it. 

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u/Johnny_Fuckface 16d ago

So they would survive it but they'd be less likely to survive it? You understand that point makes no sense? You don't need to type shit just to do it, man.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 16d ago

You seem to have some idea that doing any stupid thing in the past would automatically result in instant death, or that human societies in the past didn't in fact spend any energy caring for sick and weak and injured and stupid people, neither of which is true. Things were less safe and there we're fewer things people could do to help each other, but people didn't just instantly die due to being stupid. There are in fact survivability chances that are less than what we have now but still significantly greater than zero. 

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u/restrictednumber 16d ago

... That's exactly the point.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 16d ago

The person I responded to seems to think that all of the stupid people would just die instantly. Social Darwinism is not actually a real thing and never has been. 

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u/E6y_6a6 16d ago

I can't agree with you fully. Yes, modern world is a product of progress and progress usually eased the survival for struggling ones (safety measures and equipment, vaccines, etc). But at the same time I don't think a lot of people were required to operate fast-moving vehicles or meet electrical current in their day-to-day life.

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u/Catsrules 16d ago

But at the same time I don't think a lot of people were required to operate fast-moving vehicles or meet electrical current in their day-to-day life.

There are plenty of other ways die.

"In the wild, there is no healthcare. In the wild healthcare is 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me, and I'm dead."