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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2097783" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>Not sure he's agreeing/advocating the idea or just explaining it from a specific perspective.</p><p>We may think what he said was horrible but in reality doesn't our society tacitly condone "natural selection" for reasons much more shallow and selfish than those we consider uncivilized.</p><p></p><p>[Traditional nomadic tribes often end up abandoning their elderly during their unrelenting travels. The choice for the healthy and young is to do this or carry the old and infirm on their backs - along with children, weapons and necessities - through perilous territory. Also prone to sacrificing their elderly are societies that suffer periodic famines. Citing a dramatic example, Diamond said Paraguay’s Aché Indians assign certain young men the task of killing old people with an ax or spear, or burying them alive...]</p><p></p><p><a href="http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-jared-diamond-on-aging-150571.aspx" target="_blank">http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-jared-diamond-on-aging-150571.aspx</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2097783, member: 1294"] Not sure he's agreeing/advocating the idea or just explaining it from a specific perspective. We may think what he said was horrible but in reality doesn't our society tacitly condone "natural selection" for reasons much more shallow and selfish than those we consider uncivilized. [Traditional nomadic tribes often end up abandoning their elderly during their unrelenting travels. The choice for the healthy and young is to do this or carry the old and infirm on their backs - along with children, weapons and necessities - through perilous territory. Also prone to sacrificing their elderly are societies that suffer periodic famines. Citing a dramatic example, Diamond said Paraguay’s Aché Indians assign certain young men the task of killing old people with an ax or spear, or burying them alive...] [url]http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/PRN-jared-diamond-on-aging-150571.aspx[/url] [/QUOTE]
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