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This is the crux of the matter and any "solution" offered that ignores that young children are primarily the product of their parenting is no solution at all
by Marazan 1y ago
This is the crux of the matter and any "solution" offered that ignores that young children are primarily the product of their parenting is no solution at all
- Bender 1y agoWell, this gets dark really fast but the scientific solution is to sterilize the kids and their parents to end a bad blood line. Obviously that will never be legal to do. It won't solve doctors prescribing off-label anti-psychotic drugs, people eating garbage and excessive drinking of fermented crap which leads to compulsive behavior.
- diggan 1y ago> but the scientific solution is to sterilize the kids and their parents to end a bad blood line Not even a good solution, the amount of good people we'd be missing out on would be huge. Plenty of great people come from shit parents/backgrounds.
- Bender 1y agoHow do we break the cycle?
- diggan 1y agoIf there is risk of getting less great people, should we even risk that by breaking the cycle?
- Bender 1y agoYes. The earths population could be decimated and society would continue on. We could certainly benefit by losing the violent ones.
- diggan 1y ago> The earths population could be decimated and society would continue on Which it has, in the past, multiple times. But how would we know if we're better off with those "decimation events" or not? Kind of hard to know without some alternative reality where those didn't happen.
- Bender 1y agoWell, I guess we have to run some experiments decimating the earth then list the pros and cons. Someone else can write the thesis, of course.
- immibis 1y ago"We should sterilize 90% of the population because we can" is certainly one of the opinions of all time.