I understand most of us don't care about Reddit anymore, but I can't resist an opportunity to shine more light onto things that Reddit are trying to keep quiet.
I might have some details wrong, but here's the TL;DR:
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A moderator of r/ukpolitics linked to an article from the Spectator, which "contained a three-word mention, in passing, of a minor British public figure, expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party" (not knowing this was a Reddit admin)
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The moderator was permanently suspended for "doxxing"
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They later discovered that Reddit had hired this individual from the article, and therefore considered it doxxing.
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Turns out, if you mention this minor public figure (turned Reddit admin) anywhere on the site, you will get permanently banned.
... which isn't the bad part. The new Reddit admin (Aimee Challenor) allegedly:
- is married to a literal, self-admitted pedophile who writes sex stories about kids (tweet: https://i.imgur.com/j2GXHtW.jpg)
- hired her father as elections agent after he was charged for holding a 10 year old girl captive in his "torture den" where he electrocuted her while playing out his sadomasochistic fantasies ("subjected the child to a campaign of abuse which included tying her from a beam, whipping her and giving her electric shocks.")
- started off as just a volunteer moderator for child/teen-focused subreddits before becoming a Reddit employee
Reddit's banning anyone who mentions the new admins name. Many large subreddits are going private in protest of the admins. The admins just put out a statement clarifying the ban policy but no comment on why they hired (and still are employing) an allegedly avid supporter of child rapists. More subreddits are continuing to close. Could be interesting!
Ah, but it would be a benefit for the whole group though. And one theory I just read believes it might be triggered by a hormone or hormones by the mother during pregnancy, the odds greatly increasing the more babies she has. That has some merit, still I doubt we’ll get a firm answer anytime soon.
Something doesn’t have to be of benefit to be passed on, it just has to not totally prevent an individual from reproducing. Otherwise all insanity and malady would have vacated the human race.
In addition, choices or uncontrollable events have impacts for generations, sometimes through immediate genetic/biologic alterations (go look up stress trauma from war getting encoded and passed on in one generation), and sometimes through the micro-culture of the family, and even spiritually. Things like abuse or violence echo down - impacting survivors purely as a stress factor, and if triumphed over completely with a healthy moral life, the virtue of having overcome that harm benefits the generations. Worst is when the behavior is passed on/taught to the next generation.
A large amount of bad behavior, and a number of maladies are totally not beneficial for humans, but like viruses, tag along and get passed on. Sometimes they get so bad, no one is left to reproduce, and civilizations disappear in murder, disease, or depravity.
Hmm, well for that I end up back to why homosexuality is in so many species for so many years. That said the stress trauma being passed on sounds interesting, thank you. I’ll look it up now.
In animals it sometimes shows up as an act of pure dominance - like a type of a humiliation and putting one in ones place in the hierarchy. Sometimes it’s animal overcrowding (aka prison) - shows up sometimes with mothers also killing and eating their young. Sometimes some animals are just getting off. Dogs aren’t gay for legs and endtables - they’re just horny little bastards that have no self control. There could be some misprogramming there too - some individual animals don’t fill other imperatives like fleeing danger or eating the right things. We are more complex creatures, but I see your point. I just think socialization has a heavy impact on innate tendencies and temperaments for humans.