07-28-2013, 02:56 PM
(07-28-2013, 10:53 AM)HellJacket Wrote: The real truth is the writers just didn't put as much thought/explanation into the episode as hardcore fans would like.Yup. This is what I find so annoying about this episode. You have to find explanations and you need a lot of fantasy to make this creature work.
(07-28-2013, 10:53 AM)HellJacket Wrote: All diseases are "normal." They are simply natural processes that occur given specific genetics, organisms, or circumstances in nature. You keep trying to argue that there is a "valuable purpose" behind specific evolutionary traits. Disease is just a semantic term for what people don't like. From evolution's perspective, being "tall" or "short" is no different from having type I diabetes. They are all just genetic traits. Same as the seltenvogel's unbezahlbar. To determine whether an unbezahlbar is a good thing (from a human perspective) or a bad thing would require a whole lot more knowledge of the seltenvogel's genetic history."Good" and "bad" are simple things in evolution, you don't need a human perspective (huge claim!)
"Good" is everything that helps your genes survive the next generations, "Bad" is the opposite. Diseases are bad, they make you weak, they don't make you attractive for possible mates, they let you die early. Weakening attributes can be useful in some cases (the male peacock has got a restraining long feather tail, but it helps him to impress the ladies) but that's the exception.
We've never seen a male seltenvogel, but it's still an useless tactic to show a sexy unbezahlbar when it's wanted by everyone else, too (Klausstreich, Sheriff, who ever).
I really don't like this episode, but at least I do have fun disscussing it here .