What’s weird is that people looking to adopt need to pass all kinds of bars before they’re allowed. It’s like we all recognize that not everyone is qualified to raise children but we stop short of preventing unqualified people from having children naturally.
Probably because eugenics is somewhat looked down upon in modern society.
I see the point you’re making here, but, please don’t. We have much more pressing societal issues we need to solve before we’re able to properly address “should stupid people be allowed to breed?” not least of which involves who exactly is responsible for approving and issuing boning licenses.
Yeah eugenics is an intoxicating idea because it starts out with “what if we artificially selected for the best traits in humanity, how far could we go if everyone was performing at their best” and ends up with at best GATTACA and at worst lobotomies, gas chambers, forced sterilisations, and authoritarianism over people’s bodies.
People get wrapped up in these conspiracies because they lack control over some parts of their life and so will grasp at anything that can explain away the bad situation as being some malicious conspiracy.
When in reality, somewhere the system has failed them because the support or opportunities they need hasn’t been delivered.
Rather than focusing on how everyone appears to be an inept ill-informed idiot that isn’t doing anything meaningful, individuals and by extension society, should focus on how to elevate what people are good at and what they can contribute.
Mostly because Very Bad Things happen when you let the government decide who does and doesn’t have the right to procreate. Like, the US sterilization programs in the early 1900s directly inspired Hitler. History has shown us where that path goes.
Or saddens me that nature didn’t gift us with a minimum basic intelligence requirement to successfully procreate.
What’s weird is that people looking to adopt need to pass all kinds of bars before they’re allowed. It’s like we all recognize that not everyone is qualified to raise children but we stop short of preventing unqualified people from having children naturally.
Probably because eugenics is somewhat looked down upon in modern society.
I see the point you’re making here, but, please don’t. We have much more pressing societal issues we need to solve before we’re able to properly address “should stupid people be allowed to breed?” not least of which involves who exactly is responsible for approving and issuing boning licenses.
Yeah eugenics is an intoxicating idea because it starts out with “what if we artificially selected for the best traits in humanity, how far could we go if everyone was performing at their best” and ends up with at best GATTACA and at worst lobotomies, gas chambers, forced sterilisations, and authoritarianism over people’s bodies.
People get wrapped up in these conspiracies because they lack control over some parts of their life and so will grasp at anything that can explain away the bad situation as being some malicious conspiracy.
When in reality, somewhere the system has failed them because the support or opportunities they need hasn’t been delivered.
Rather than focusing on how everyone appears to be an inept ill-informed idiot that isn’t doing anything meaningful, individuals and by extension society, should focus on how to elevate what people are good at and what they can contribute.
Mostly because Very Bad Things happen when you let the government decide who does and doesn’t have the right to procreate. Like, the US sterilization programs in the early 1900s directly inspired Hitler. History has shown us where that path goes.
Proof to me that evolution has never been about ‘survival of the fittest’, just ‘survival of the good-enough to reach breeding age’.