Darwin states that he paraphrased the old adage a bit. “It depends upon whose ox gets gored” gets this substitution , “At a rodeo, it depends upon the row in which you sit as to whether your genome gets gored.” So whose genome gets gored? Why the dufus in the first row, of course.
Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors