| I'm not really sure if this qualifies as "Darwin" material. There are far better examples, like the owner of an elephant who overdosed his pet on laxatives and them suffocated in droppings while he was trying to manually clean out the elephant from the rear end.
I had a college professor who could have qualified. Brilliant mathematician. One soggy summer he went out to his backyard with a sheet of aluminum and a drill with a chord he knew was frayed. Zap.
I would venture to say that the least intelligent take themselves out of the gene pool by doing the least intelligent things, but then I think of him. Then I also think of an uncle who died before they insisted on having collapsible steering columns and got impaled. He wasn't stupid. CEOs were stupid and/or greedy. And I also think of all the people I know who should never have had children, should never have spread their genes, yet they did, and they have. Hopefully they'll do us all a favor some day before they do any more damage.
No, I do believe in the short haul it's pretty random, as Darwin said. Over all it may be more directed as he suggested. But I do believe every death has some inherent irony. My father died after doing things that made little sense after lecturing us for years about being logical in our decisions. My mother who never smoked, drank and ate healthy died of cancer when I was young... Maybe it's all just a way for fate to add a little lecture to the end of a life for us all to see... if we dare look. Too many don't want to bother. They are dangerous people: to themselves and to us. |