Wholesome, but not a meme.
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It's a meme in the original sense of the word meme:
an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.
I think we should share those memes too.
I think there could be a place for that, but the sidebar for this community does say 'When you need a laugh', so maybe we could create another community for that kind of meme?
Or just change the sidebar description? But this is something for the mods of this community to decide. If they think this thread is off topic they can easily delete or lock it.
Fair enough, and it did get quite a lot of upvotes to be fair.
Your shirt is a meme.
Also, she never said that and humans aren't the only animals who care for their injured. Pretty much a fail all around.
Had always thought this was real but it seems like it wasn't.
The takeaway, i guess, is that US healthcare only counts as civilized to those with money.
They'll fix your broken bone, they just won't provide any rehab if you don't have insurance.
That’s why Libertarians haven’t taken over the planet.
Very true!
"Me first! Fuck you! Every man for himself!" is a terrible basis for a society.
But isn't that just survival of the fittest? /s
Also most are armchair weekend libertarians, nurturing their thousands and one prejudices.
"Libertarianism for me (muh guns! freydum!), not for thee (minority equality, gay equality, women's equality, etc.)."
If we accept this hoax as true, then we also have to accept that wolves have been forming a civilization for over a million years: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/wolves-have-been-caring-for-the-pack-for-at-least-1.3m-years
Human exceptionalism is a dangerous joke.
I'd argue that they show a degree of civilization amongst themselves. Note that I mean this as the adjective form, not the noun.
Also, you know, people having invented bone healing, as opposed to entire species arriving naturally to bone healing through evolution over millions of years because it's a practical thing in the wild to have.
Dangerous how?
Human exceptionalism sets humans apart from nature, it's a belief that denies that we too are a part of the ecosystem and dependant on it, which leads to a lack of care for said ecosystem, which will lead to an inevitable collapse of said ecosystem (it can still collapse if we care for it, but if we don't, then it's inevitable and faster). Which will lead to huge problems for humans,because contrary to the belief of human exceptionalism, we are not exceptional, we are still very much dependant on nature and our environment.
I did a quick google search and there's loads of literature on the dangers of the human exceptionalism belief, so if you want to read more, just Google "dangers of human exceptionalism".
I consider myself a smart monkey, but it's not because I'm smart, that I'm no longer a monkey.
Sir, this is a meme page.
Me: Reads this and feels temporarily good.
Comments: This isn't a meme, it's fake, healthcare is expensive, murder exists.
Maybe the person with the broken leg got it from jumping off a cliff to kill themself, but survived, and was kept alive by another because they were their favorite sex slave.
And thus, civilization was born
You pretty much summed up my entire experience with this post. Thank you. I see you, and appreciate you.
I'm down for the sentiment, but this certainly isn't a meme.
This story is a myth by the way.
I was gonna say, members of a group caring for one another is a sign of a social species. Like, we have a sample size of one species becoming "civilized" but I can't imagine a civilization developing in a species that isn't social. But there are plenty of present and historical examples of this kind of social behavior without civilization.
Also geese will wait with injured friends so that's not all animals.
Well, I guess it's all animals that don't develop the first sign of civilization as defined in the quote. Congratulations, geese, you got over the threshold!
Not a meme
I'm on the fence.
I'm in the 'social media microblogging' is not a meme camp as well.
However I find the message in this one worth distributing, which is technically what a meme is all about
Every meme starts somewhere
So it's cute and could have some relative usefulness but there are some problems with this mythical anecdote:
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animals heal broken legs all the time. It's not a guaranteed death sentence, if it were there actually wouldn't even be a way to repair it at all. See: brain, lungs, heart. All things which can very slightly repair themselves from minor injuries, not catastrophic ones.
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bipeds are worse off, but quadrupeds can generally manage, poorly, with only three legs. There are exceptions, but that's one of the main benefits of having four legs.
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a broken femur can already be a death sentence regardless of early medicine. Very easy to bleed out, the actual maiming is the least of your worries.
I'm with you until you say bound up the wound.
I mean I'm not saying I could, (also not saying I couldn't) but also isn't it conceivable that a person managed to crawl back to their cave where they had food stored, bound their own leg, and was lucky enough to avoid infection? Nothing about a healed leg implicitly demands intervention from other beings.
They must have had food stored for a few weeks to months, in a time before preservation techniques.