> Hard for you to imagine because you live in a modern society and your next meal is guaranteed.

It is easy to reduce people to caricatures when we don't know them. Since we aren't at a happy hour regaling each other over the craziness of lives lived, I'll be brief: there have been periods of life where this assertion wasn't true.

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chrisco255 an hour ago | parent [-]

Your next meal is guaranteed in a way that you can't possibly relate to what someone 2000-8000 years ago had to fear.

	▲	tomrod an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not understanding what you are trying to say in your comment? That you can't imagine "tomrod" or other hackernews commentariat have ever gone hungry for an extended period? That you can't imagine a modern community facing food insecurity, drought, war, or other maladies? Communities built themselves around food production and child rearing 2000-8000 years ago as they nominally do today. I think you may be overstating the disparity in experiencing the negatives (drought, disaster, and war) and ignoring that these conditions also happen today and sometimes also don't get resolved -- people die, starve, drink poisoned water, and so forth.