+277 The human body is built for the primitive lifestyle in which we must hunt and gather, naturally causing us to be in shape. Most of the technological advances we enjoy today are counterproductive for physical fitness, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Isn't physical fitness a good sacrifice for all the benefits of technological advancement?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not sure. In the short run, the benefits easily outweigh the costs. In the long run, if technology continues to increase rapidly, in a few hundred years the average human may be obese. I just keep picturing the people in the movie Wall-E, big fat blobs being tended to by robots.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Qq: If everyone is obese, won't some form of evolution or something take over to adapt to it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes. We will eventually mate with our care-taker robot and produce a generation of cyborgs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just, no. Obesity is not benificial to us as a species in any way. That would be taking a step back in evolution. We adapt to the environment, not the reverse.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is so true it hurts.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're so sexy it hurts.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm sorry, I'll tone it down.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the human body's main adaptation is the advanced mind. By creating all these new things we are embracing our nature.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(:P): that's one perspective but if you've ever watched the movie "The God's must be Crazy" it gives the perspective that humans spend all their time adapting nature to suit THEM rather than adapting themselves to nature and in that sense humans are making more complex than they should be.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree with your post, but I don't believe that we would all become obese like in WALL-E. First off society would be forced to change its view from people being skinny and having toned/muscular bodies to more fat bodies and secondly there's a certain well-being that comes from being fit and many people would still want that well being. Thirdly, as one of the users posted, there's is that process of evolution which comes from survival of the fittest, and being obese has many negative effects on the body and one's health. So since one's health would decrease they wouldn't live as long and then survival of the fittest would play a role n all that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago