The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan

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The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
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Real shame they blew up those statues of Buddha. Those might have draw in some tourists. :|

Natural selection though

Hmm? What does evolutionary fitness have to do with the barbarians destroying art they had no hope of imitating that honors a philosophical achievement that no random pedophile warlord could even hardly grasp?

I mean, literally? Foolish choices of the past are limiting economic opportunities of the present, meaning they will have less success compared to their peers, other nations. The concept of natural selection doesn't have to be limited to literal generational gene transfer, but can be applied to other areas. I mean technically you might be better served thinking of it more in terms of game theory or some shit, but a hand-waving application of natural selection isn't terrible.

Gotcha. The Afghani of the future will be worse off because of the present. Now I understand what you were communicating.

It wasn't actually my comment, just my interpretation of what they were trying to say. Still, I'm fairly confident that's what they were getting at.