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It should actually be called natural selection.

Quite often, advanced medicine saves babies that should not be according to the laws of nature.

Giving birth should be left to nature and not to hospitals and machines.

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Giving birth should be left to nature and not to hospitals and machines.

So, my only child should have died in the womb, and my wife with him?

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@shonanbb

By that logic, we probably shouldn't wear clothes or build houses. Natural selection has given us the ability to develop technology. Why wouldn't we use that "gift from nature"?

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I think your idea of natural selection might be a bit off.

It's true that natural selection used to reward those who were big, strong and healthy but only because those traits were seen as attractive and essential to survival precisely due to a lack of technology. (ie. for mammoth hunters who lived in caves and trekked across the frozen tundra).

Today, natural selection is still as potent as it's ever been but it no longer rewards physical fitness. It now rewards those with charisma, good looks, emotional intelligence (or whatever other qualities you need to get someone to sleep with you). Just because these babies need modern medicine to survive doesn't mean that they themselves won't be reproductively successful.

It's like saying that our ancestors who needed a spear in order to hunt and kill something for food (rather than using their bare hands) were never meant to survive and should have starved according to the law of nature. Obviously, in this case natural selection is rewarding inventiveness.

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