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What few understand about Darwin Awards

posted 16 years ago by tim-riches-1
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What most people don't get correctly when describing the reason for the Darwin Awards is that one can only win one if they die in a spectacularly stupid way AND they have not yet reproduced, thus improving the species or at least not lowering it more by breeding from inferior stock. Hence Darwin - survival of the fittest.

Humanity has stepped outside of Evolution's strictures. Natural Selection has no teeth sharp enough for us anymore, to our detriment and eventual extinction.

The Bible: Pearls of wisdom from people who didn't even know enough to keep their feces out of their food.

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[–] SCmovieprof 16 years ago

It's not just any accidents or tragedies. You guys are missing the point. It's the STUPID ones, brought on themselves by stupid people! There are plenty of accidents, etc. that happen to people who tragically suffer through no fault of their own. That is NOT the focus of either the awards or the movie.

[–] CraigOfAllTrades 16 years ago

Yes, because miscarriages are just as humorous as a guy who straps rockets to his car and plows into a mountain. Jeez people, lighten up.

"Sacred cows make the best hamburgers."

[–] Niels-NL 16 years ago

Funny, you don't get it correctly either.

You don't have to DIE to win - just remove yourself from the gene pool.
Losing your reproductive organs in a stupid way also counts.

There is at least one such case in the awards archive that I remember.

[–] glacierslug 16 years ago

Oh, there are a LOT of cases in the archives of people sterilizing themselves. A perfectly valid darwin award.