Talk:Monsters/@comment-24768935-20140529145716/@comment-25035274-20140614165728

Two things to point out.

(a) The Borg aren't feared because they force others to evolve. They're feared because when they assimilate a person, all traces of that person are completely eradicated and they are essentially consumed by a hive-mind. They lose all individuality, all traces of emotion and humanity and are, in effect and for lack of a better description, killed and eaten. Kind of like Nirvana, but without the enlightenment.

The mamono don't do that. People retain their personalities and individuality. They are not bound to the will of some sort of grotesque, mechanical Overmind.

(2) Evolution is mutation. Mutation is adaptation. Adaptation does not only affect newborns. Humans constantly adapt, mutate and yes, evolve. It's what makes humans successful as a species, and what puts us at the top of the food chain here on Earth. We are a highly adaptive, mutable species, and as such our evolution proceeds faster and in larger leaps than any other species I know of on Earth.

In the real world, you may not see an adult person sprout wings out of nowhere, but you sometimes will see an adult build wings out of nowhere. Evolution at work. Not biological, but mental.

By the by, I'll point out that what I said was that the whole issue seems to me to be a form of human evolution. I'm not stating as a fact that it's evolution, but that evolution is how I, personally, view it.