Wikipedia – Instead of promoting rationality, they tell you how many people died somewhere

Who would think that Wikipedia which should promote scientific discourse, free inquiry, and rationality is living in obscurantism?

People are evolutionary programmed that if you kill a child that is a problem (and, of course, it should be). And since the means of contraception didn’t exist nearly all the time people were in existence, when a child isn’t born, it means nothing. Let’s pretend evolutionary pressure has been so strong that only a mere store of contraception would mean severe punishments. But the pressure (not the imaginable) is going to be stronger anyway. Since people with low IQ have more offspring, the average IQ will decline.

If the media studied demography and informed every time an extra 10 people were born compared to the last statistics, it would always make the news.

Now let’s immerse ourselves into catastrophes Wikipedia informs us all the time. Accidents do happen, a lot of people die, and of course, they will unfortunately die anyway, but it is statistically so insignificant that it should have no coverage. The governments take measures to prevent such catastrophes and they sometimes fail, so it is definitely a motivation to improve something (and Wikipedia should inform every time a measure is more strict). The funny thing (and these topics shouldn’t be funny) is that even mainstream media don’t inform about the catastrophes with such coverage as Wikipedia does.

People just want to see videos, images, and stories, exactly the way we are evolutionarily programmed.

Now finally a misattributed quote: “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic.” Even if Stalin had uttered this, who would think this mass murderer was right?