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> Death by flu is selection for random shit that cause you to be better off against only one thing and that is: that exact desease causing strain.

But that is, in fact, natural selection, isn't it?

Natural selection ≠ selection for traits that benefit society.

Natural selection cannot apply if the vast majority of deaths occur in a demographic that is way past its reproductive phase...

Unless the survivality of that demographic has an impact on the survivality of their descendants, as it has been proved.

Please elaborate, I'm unable to follow you.

Thanks!

But still unproven then, because it's a hypothesis and not a theory...

I’m past the edit window, but I want to make absolutely clear that I’m not somehow arguing in favor if old people dying.

Natural selection may be “natural”. But nature is unbelievably cruel.