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She gets an extra d12 damage with improvised weapons what do you expect
If you are alive, you can make more babies. /s
Damn, nature is really cruel.
Hey man, fuck them kids. As Mr. Krabs once said, ‘what have children ever done for me?’
^certifies Spongebob philosopher
This just happened to me today. A chipmunk was startled by me as I opened a door, and bolted… Her tiny week old baby was left sprawling near my feet.
I used a hand warmer and some microfiber cloths to keep it warm, then thankfully the mother came back for it… But like… Wtf, Mom?
The baby can’t survive without its mom. But the mom can make new babies.
This motherquokka…
You motherquokka, I wanted to comment that!
Kangaroos do the same. To be fair, evolutionarily it makes sense. (They only do it when they have literally no escape, and the choice is either both of them dying or the kid dying, soo…)
I bet in pre-history it happened more often than not in humans, and within recorded history has likely happened more times than anyone would admit.
Oh absolutely. We used to not give kids names until they were 3 years or so old. To not get attached.
eeeh our whole evolutionary niche is to be so social that we’ll form bonds with a literal rock, i can’t see the vast vast vast majority of mentally healthy humans managing to do it, more likely they’d try to gently throw the child away from the danger and sacrifice themselves.
I don’t think that would be the general case with humans under these kinds of circumstances. For most of history, women had many more children on average than we see in most of the world today. It was expected that many wouldn’t live past three years old in much of known, recorded history. I can only imagine in circumstances even more primitive than what we know of, something like this wouldn’t be as unthinkable as you’re describing.
Yeah. We evolved to survive as a group. Not as individuals.
Kangaroos while they do sometimes form groups, are far far less social, and kids of dead parents aren’t adopted like what would happen in a human group.
Kangaroos form two sorts of groups
- Like most herbivores, they have one male and many females in a mob (kangaroo equivalent to a herd)
- Males outside that mob form loose groups for defence and within that they fight to establish dominance and the top roo may challenge the male lead of a mob to take it over
Plenty of anecdotal stories of infant brothers and sisters not making it through hiding during the holocaust because of muffling their cries.
I don’t care enough to ruin my day by validating a of them though.
oh you can validate them real easy: it’s anecdotal, thus false until actually proven.
Okay, but I don’t think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive
I read that parents ate some kids during famines. Could be bullshit though, I don’t want to look.
That’s my mom at a '70s measles party.
I don’t get what the fuss is about, I would do it too. And you can always make more later. /s
you can always make more later
It’s true, I just threw the equivalent population of a small country in the bin. Can’t say I’m not pleased with myself rn. 😌
Why? Let me tell ou something (compassionists hate this simple trick). As a relativist egoist it’s so much easier. Do what you want to do, morality is a spook anyway. Want to bin a baby? Go for it! Want to introduce new DNA sequences in fertile humans? Do what you feel like doing. As long as you can exploit the consequences for your own gain. Life is just so much easier this way. /s
I just want to poop cubes like a wombat. How close to that is science? How about mad science?
Improvise, adapt, overcome
, yeet.
Humans do this too during war time
Not really on any significant scale.
/s?
That’s why Bambi was about a deer not a quokka
Being alive is good!
Citation needed /s
…after the predator instantly becomes enamored with the adorable baby quokka, and calls her own kids over to play.
That’s one bad mother quokka
