Most “fruit” are sweet because we made them so. And we did so with plenty of vegetables too.

Sweetest thing in my garden are tomatoes.

Are you in philosophy 101? What an irrelevant brain-in-a-vat-ass take.

I guess a comet kicked us into this lane

Maybe you don’t, but women are doing science now and they weren’t allowed to a century ago.

You’re generalizing a few millennia of civilization. That doesn’t really make sense.

The low life expectancy in Egypt seems cherry picked from one search result you found? Seems to be about a single village with data from about a century? Might as well have been disease. For all its fertility, farming in water comes with big downsides.

And Egypt has always been surrounded by nomadic tribes. Leaving the kingdom must have been so much easier than leaving capitalism today. But people chose for stability which the pharaoh provided. They weren’t slaves, unlike the actual slaves which they did own.

They were not forced to do this. It was a privilege, one that actual slaves weren’t allowed. So looking back that makes it a system of a rich guy paying people for his passion project while they didn’t have any other income.

Not quite communism but it’s as much slavery as any other job.

The pyramids were not built by slaves. They were built by farmers during downtime, they were treated well. Pharaohs were living gods, so building for them and getting paid for it mustn’t have been that different from building a cathedral.

They’re bringing flowers because they had to amputate her legs for easily preventable diabetes complications.

Has anyone tried smth like this? https://www.clicks.tech/en

“Survival of the fittest” is about a species, not an individual. For larger animals pain and pleasure are the greatest teachers, because we can learn from those. These species benefit from individuals learning survival skills. Insects have no use for it, they don’t learn to adapt, they survive through numbers, their behavior adapts through evolution.

They react to damage the same way plants do. If you want to call that pain, sure. It doesn’t make sense evolutionary that they would suffer from it though.

And we know it’s not inherent to life. Even some people are born without nociceptors because of genetic issues. Not-suffering is a big problem, kids get infections etc because they don’t learn to stop hurting themselves.

Nature is very cruel, but not so evil to evolve suffering in animals who don’t have the capacity to learn from it.

Reading. There are plenty of complaints from ever since the printing press about people using books to ignore each other. It wasn’t really all that different from tv or phones. I don’t think first panel family is older than mass production of novels.