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A little evolutionary pressure can't be a bad thing, right?

FYI Evolutionary pressure is mostly failure to reproduce. There needs to be enough damage or death before reproduction. Women past menopause can only affect evolution by preventing their children from reproducing.

Slightly damaged eyesight would hardly affect evolution.

Being blind must. It's evolution pressure, not evolutionary dead-end.

We are a very compassionate society. There are dating and matchmaking services for people with virtually every kind of disability, including those who absolutely can not care for themselves, and modern health infrastructure affords the mentally disabled and other selective pressures (narrow birth canal and many other issues) to carry to term.

The same evolutionary pressures don't apply to humans at the moment with regard to sex. Not while civilization is a thing, anyway.

It isn’t exactly intuitive that when the sun’s light appears to be blocked it is nevertheless dangerous to stare at the eclipse because of invisible UV rays. This is something you specifically have to learn and is only relevant for a very rare event. Seems kind of harsh to consider people stupid for not knowing that. Then there are also ineffective counterfeit eclipse glasses that people unknowingly bought…

> It isn’t exactly intuitive that when the sun’s light appears to be blocked it is nevertheless dangerous to stare at the eclipse because of invisible UV rays.

If you’re claiming it’s unsafe to view totality without protection, NASA disagrees with you:

> You can view the eclipse directly without proper eye protection only when the Moon completely obscures the Sun’s bright face – during the brief and spectacular period known as totality.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/

In 2024 anyone who can use Google knows full well that they shouldn't be staring into the sun.

Because young children are incapable of typing into search, right?

Now you're just being obstinate to avoid admitting your premise was flawed.

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