Alien! Reader who just, has the hardest time understanding how humans are a species that evolved naturally.
If they look back into humanity's past it starts to make sense, highly intelligent social creatures do tend to be successful, heck you might even have fauna on your own planet that fits a similar bill to early human behavior. But then you look at modern humans and have to wonder how they continued to survive.
Especially given how reckless humans can be and how blatantly they disregard their own survival instincts (assuming they're still present in modern humans because you swear you've seen one of your human companions try something called "hot sauce" only for the result to be them struggling to even stand).
Alien! Reader: forgive me if this is an insensitive question, but have humans perhaps taken a step back in terms of evolutionary progression?
Human: what, why do you say that?
Alien! Reader: i have never encountered a species that so blatantly disregards its own safety so frequently. Has your sense of danger been bred out over the course of generations??
A valid question from Alien!reader's point of view. π
I probably wouldn't know how to answer a question like that myself, since there can be various reasons. Life got so advanced and comfortable that brains no longer think survival instincts are necessary? Some humans have not been taught about possible dangers; thus, they do not know how to act when it happens? Some humans simply think they know better despite the obvious signs of danger? And some humans just do it because they think it's funny?
Alien!reader would probably get a headache in trying to understand when the humans try to explain it. They don't get answers, they only got more questions.
