Are modern humans weak?

rockitemokid wrote: Atsuma:
Yes, knowledge does make it convenient, but when is the last time you had to do LABOR for your food? Pick the crops? Process things? Make your clothes?
It makes us lazy, and physically less fit.
We replace things like cooking with computers, things like plays and musicals with TV.
Hell, we watch presidential addresses online, we do SCHOOL on the computer, just to fry our brains a little bit more.
Our generation is always saying they are bored, it's because life is soft.
We pity everyone living in poverty, when, what poor people have, used to be the norm.
Their version of poor was dead.
No one builds their own house, half of the people in the world can't defend themselves from attack.
It's completely dumb.

Based on that, we should really have never developed at all (as a world) and should always remain the same? I don't really think so. Obviously, the introduction of technology has left people unfit, as they no longer do the stuff they used to do, for example as you said, we sit on our asses and watch TV, who doesn't?
To be fair, school isn't really done on the computer, and lots of people still continue to go to plays and musicals.

Does that make people who don't like to go out to plays and musicals weak? Does it make people who have no need to travel to school weak? Does it make people who don't build their own house weak? (On that subject, people who build their own houses would generally have a shit infrastructure, therefore they are doing the smarter thing by not)
It hardly makes them weak, it makes them lazy, but even that depends on individual people.

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Sure, people continue to go to plays and musicals, but ask the next teenager you see if they have ever been to one. Odds on, the answer is no.
Things don't happen, they evolve, and we're evolving into a weak race.
Developing into something is not bad, doing it without discretion is horrible.
We don't take time to spend with our family, we're desensitized ass holes because, if we don't want to see, we turn off the TV screen.
If we don't want to know, we stop looking.
The mindset of laziness creeps it's way into all we do.
It becomes routine, and routines don't break easily.
I'm saying, instead of getitng in the car to go three blocks, walk.
If you want to have something to do when you're bored, do something character building.
What use is it to be the reigning race, if we don't make use of our abilities?

Its a different economy different jobs. Advancements on technology no one needs manufacturers because everything is done by machine people aren't 'getting weaker' its a different generation, more advances in technology. Employers need people who know how to work a computer. When the internet came out it expanded the market globally and more jobs manufacturing etc got moved over to countries because its cheaper. If you look at any item manufactured today its usually India, Japan, China etc.

I say we are not weak humans nowadays are more aware of things around the world then before, things are just easier to get to (-recession) its more of a generation for people with brains then with brawn.

I say there is to much freedom people always want freedom, but when is it to much?

And you shouldn't lope everyone into 'weaker' its just the western nations that seem to be a problem or upper classes. Third World countries believe it or not still use physical labour.

theoretically this generation could live to over 100
realistically, considering the health and lifestyles, most will be lucky to reach 60

the overuse of technology makes us weak
a compromise is needed

There's actually been a scientific study on the fossils of modern men and the caveman era, and we've degenerated in our bone structure massively with modernised comforts and eases.

It's a bit like natural selection, only in the reverse as we acclimitise to a provided for, not a providing, world.

So, basically, in a phyiscal sense, yeah, we have. The caveman's bone structure is almost rock hard, and much more formed.

However, would a caveman survive in the modern era? The fast paced, little rest, suit and tie society we've been born and raised in? Marketing, social development, networking, having to set up industry in order to survive, the currency system. The mental developments far outweigh the phsyical degeneration.

So no, we've developed concurrently, and acclimitised with our environments. We're not weaker, we're just adjusting. We don't need to work until pregnancy, because we've worked it out.

Now we don't need backbreaking physical work, but the enduring mental work, what beats what?

I guess it comes to a matter of perspective.

MC Mozz wrote: However, would a caveman survive in the modern era? The fast paced, little rest, suit and tie society we've been born and raised in?

How well do primitive people adjust? We may not have "cave men" but there are plenty of "stone age" cultures in existence.
How well do indigenous populations cope with modern living? in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, many parts of Africa, parts of Asia and India Indigenous people are forced to adapt or not fit in?

Everyone looks at negatives but if people had no technology people where having kids at 12 -14 long time ago because the life expectancy was so low if you lived to 30 back then you where lucky. With all the advances on technology we have nowadays we have the power to fight diseases, cure cancer. Something like chicken pox or the measles back then was a life sentence now you get shots when your a baby that counter these life-threatening childhood diseases. How about SARS the epidimic we where able to conquer it with a shot back then if something like SARS was around it would have wiped out an entire population before we found out how to deal with it.

Sure we are weaker physically but mentally, scientifcally, technically we are more advanced as a civilization.

A letter back in the day took months to get now, it takes maybe a couple days not including the internet. We can talk to people who are from countries we never even been too. Back then it was sort of every country for itself. Now with further advancements we can help other countires UNICEF, Chairty organizations we are able to sponsor and adopt kids from third world countires 'give them a better life'. If you use the internet and buy a bicycle for a country they can use that to make their families better.

It depends how you look at it? IS it all negative?