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in the olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. We have overcome a lot of natural selection so there are likely many more dumb people than in the p

in the olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. We have overcome a lot of natural selection so there are likely many more dumb people than in the past. We all share the same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covid. If you choose not to take lifesaving vaccinations then you are dumb, especially if you are in a high risk category where the risk of death is 1-5% Im not at all in favor of mandatory vaccinations.

Lammy 5y ago
Why do we have to be so mean about it though? All the ableist language we throw around really saddens me https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_esoteric/morons_imbeciles_idiots.pdf https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_esoteric/morons_imbecile...
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
  I think it is because we have a political structure that people to be increasingly accountable to the choices of others responsible for their mistakes. It breeds resentment and hatred. Absent this structure, people would have no problem with an idiot making mistakes. Take that same person and make others pay for every mistake they make, and guess how people will respond.
nanis 5y ago
> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement. If "dumbness" is genetic and smart people make smart offspring and dumb people make dumb offspring, where do today's dumb people come from? Clearly, not the dumb people who died and did not reproduce. The correct statement is that people who were not well adapted to their environment died. Some of them actually died after reproducing. > same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covid. One, "known" averages and individualized "probabilities" are different things. Two, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 Now you are confounding the probability of a random infected person dying with the probability of a randomly picked person in your own demographic group dying from Covid19. For example, 3,145 females between 30-39 years of age died from Covid19 between 01/01/2020-09/04/2021. It looks like there are about 22 million people in that age group which corresponds to 0.014% probability of a randomly picked person in that group dying from Covid19 within that period. [1]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

Lammy 5y ago

Why do we have to be so mean about it though? All the ableist language we throw around really saddens me https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_esoteric/morons_imbeciles_idiots.pdf https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_esoteric/morons_imbecile...

s1artibartfast 5y ago
I think it is because we have a political structure that people to be increasingly accountable to the choices of others responsible for their mistakes. It breeds resentment and hatred. Absent this structure, people would have no problem with an idiot making mistakes. Take that same person and make others pay for every mistake they make, and guess how people will respond.

nanis 5y ago

> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement. If "dumbness" is genetic and smart people make smart offspring and dumb people make dumb offspring, where do today's dumb people come from? Clearly, not the dumb people who died and did not reproduce. The correct statement is that people who were not well adapted to their environment died. Some of them actually died after reproducing. > same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covid. One, "known" averages and individualized "probabilities" are different things. Two, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 Now you are confounding the probability of a random infected person dying with the probability of a randomly picked person in your own demographic group dying from Covid19. For example, 3,145 females between 30-39 years of age died from Covid19 between 01/01/2020-09/04/2021. It looks like there are about 22 million people in that age group which corresponds to 0.014% probability of a randomly picked person in that group dying from Covid19 within that period. [1]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...