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I get it. But it's their children battle. (Not to mention that Idiocracy is not coming, general intelligence seems to be not decreasing, despite the claims to t
by js8 9y ago
I get it. But it's their children battle. (Not to mention that Idiocracy is not coming, general intelligence seems to be not decreasing, despite the claims to the contrary.) Why should the people who decide not to have kids be held responsible for the failure of evolution? They didn't invent or promote the mechanism..
In my view, to say "you should have kids because then stupid people will win" is as much a rationalization to have kids like "I do not have kids to avoid environmental disaster" might be a rationalization for something else.
- lsd5you 9y agoThis is just wishful thinking. There is evidence that base intelligence is decreasing. It is just improvements to education (and possibly fudged statistics) can mask the effect, for a while at least.
- DanielleMolloy 9y agoI'm not blaming anybody, everyone has freedom to decide. It is better to be no parent than a parent who never wanted to be in this role. I want to point out that the evolutionary mechanisms are always active, and intelligent humans rationalizing against procreation (something that primarily educated humans seem to do) are part of the evolutionary game.
- zzzcpan 9y agoRight. Smart people can teach other children, help other children and so on. There is absolutely no necessity to procreate to let stupid people win. And might be even stupider and very inefficient to waste time selfishly on your children, if you really don't want stupid people to win.