Quote from: gentlemand on July 13, 2017, 04:17:59 PM

Quote from: skillink on July 13, 2017, 03:45:29 AM

Obviously not, because it will inhibit population growth whereas human beings are social beings and humans are creatures in pairs

I think there's no shortage of people out there who are utterly sick of having to deal with the opposite sex but still have the same old urges. The uptake might be shockingly high when viable ones arrive.

Or vice versa, evolution accelerates as anti-social, emotionally damaged snowlakes voluntarily remove themselves from the gene pool by endless masturbation to inanimate objects. Both Darwin and God Almighty will be pleased.

The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.

The project became more formalized with the creation of a website in 1993, and followed up by a series of books starting in 2000, authored by Wendy Northcutt. The criterion for the awards states, "In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."