adulthood

For most mayflies, adulthood lasts roughly one day.

One might not want to make it to adulthood after that class.

Because of that low diversity, they’re more vulnerable to diseases, and their cubs are less likely to survive to adulthood.

As a result, the faculties that would normally engage with intimate danger were cauterised and numbed and have remained so into adulthood, which accounts for the paradox of high competence and strength existing alongside severe passivity and powerlessness.