A baby's cry should, according to Evolutionist dogma, provide for a survival mechanism. If this is so, why does a newborn baby's cry irritate and annoy to no end?
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Well, seeing as it can't take care of itself, it needs *some* way to alert the parents that it needs something. The more irritating the cry, the more effective it is at preventing you from ignoring it.
"why does a newborn baby's cry irritate and annoy to no end?"
The reason why babies actually cry is so the mother starts producing milk. The breast and a babies cry actually evolved together. There is a mechanism within the breast so that the sound waves from a babies cry trigger the breast to start producing milk. This is so that everytime the baby cries, which is normally when they need the milk, milk will be ready and waiting for them.
I've spent the past few days reading the posts in the archives that have been awarded prizes (what else should I do while bored at work?), and up to now I haven't bothered to comment on any. They're so old, why bother? Laughing was enough. Until this one.
Man, I don't like kids at all, and will never have any... but while a newborn's crying annoys me because of the noise , I'll still try to help it. Because, you know, it's crying because it needs something.shouldn't . You're one of them.
To the mother, it means something's wrong, and fix it. Even to the bystander, it means that something's wrong...there's that urge to hunt down the parent and make them DO something.
Thus it works.
So you'll get off your fat fuckin ass and shut the thing up, via: (A)feeding it, (B) giving it attention, or (C) wiping its ass
and Kudos to Poisoned Rationality.
way to completely misconstrue evolution.
the idea is that it tells the parents something is wrong, and annoys the parents into taking care of it. if it sounded like beautiful music, people would probably let the babies cry just for the music.
Hear anoying cry - get urge to do something about it - act on that urge - annoying cry stops.
If you choose to have a baby, you also choose to have that baby annoying you with its crying.
“A baby's cry should, according to Evolutionist dogma, provide for a survival mechanism.”
"If this is so, why does a newborn baby's cry irritate and annoy to no end?”
Of course, once my kids were old enough to take care of themselves, i find baby cries much less annoying. I sit there on the plane KNOWING it’s not a problem I need to solve. I would help if i could, if they ask for any assistance, but i’m not particularly annoyed by the poor thing.
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