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There is no eugenics angle in Idiocracy. Nobody tries to achieve some "genetic ideal" by manipulating people.
by fainpul 6mo ago
There is no eugenics angle in Idiocracy. Nobody tries to achieve some "genetic ideal" by manipulating people.
- singpolyma3 6mo agoThe premise of the movie is that smart people stop having kids and dumb people have lots. It's "reverse eugenics"
- numitus 6mo agoBut it's a proven fact. Less educated people are poorer. The less educated tend to have more children. And children who grow up in poor families receive a lower quality of education.
- singpolyma3 6mo agoYes but this is not the genetic argument this is a "school system sucks" argument
- numitus 6mo agoIn every country, if your parents are scientists, you will be in average smarter, than if your parents are peasants.
- wiseowise 6mo agoWoah, woah, stop right there with your facts Mr. Eugenics. /s
- abenga 6mo agoIs that because of some heritable presence/lack of intelligence or because scientists feed their children well early in life, have books in the home, and take the time to follow up on their children's education?
- fainpul 6mo agoThe ugly thing about eugenics is that someone has an artificial ideal of how people should be and then tries to enforce that. If something just happens without interference (a process), that's basically just evolution.