re: #509 lostlakehiker

Darwinian selection either way. In fact, Darwin say better for parents that they themselves die than that their children die. Darwin/Mendel say, better that the copies of the genes living in the younger body live on.

The momma bear knows this. Most human parents know it. Other humans manage not through any wits of their own, but because they live in the society of those who warn them when they’re about to do something terminally stupid.

True. I just feel bad about the emotional impact on the children due to parental obtuseness/stupidity. And they get it either way. Either directly from the bear, or the emotional scarring of seeing one or both parents torn up by an irritated bear in front of their eyes.

Mother Nature doesn’t care, but I can.

Another reason to make part of the educational process getting folk exposed to nature in a way that makes clear what some of the dangers are without psychologically making them afraid of it. Appreciation, with care, is the goal I guess.