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One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn't as important, if we like to view it that way.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.
That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.
EDIT: Missing words.
I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.
In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren't you dead already?
This makes me wonder; why then would women typically have longer life-spans then men? Once women hit menopause they are biologically useless for propogating the species whereas men retain the ability impregnate women for their whole lives.
Meanwhile, kids take hits all the time that would kill me instantly.
When my son was a toddler, he went down a slide feet first but on his stomach. I had a complete brain fart and forgot to catch him at the bottom of the slide like I had always done in the past. He few about 3 feet, then landed on the ground on his stomach, his head whipped back and then slammed face first into the ground.
I remember thinking at the time, Jesus Christ, I would be DEAD if that happened to me. But yeah, he cried a little bit and walked it off.
So if I don't have kids I can be immortal. I can be the midlander. THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE!
They got a tridge there too:
wait midland is a real place!
Yeah and they are looking for an authoritative ruler, you should apply!
You die and whatever factors that lead you to not reproduce will become less common in the future.
That's the theory anyway!
Woohoo. Income inequality and pollution will become less common.
Free will and vasectomies will become less common!
explosive public shitstorms will become less common!
Nature is messy and incredible.