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which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breed
by kiba 14y ago
which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities
What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
- gizmo686 14y agoIt means that the amount by which smart people out breed less smart people has decreased.
- meaty 14y agoRefer to the film "idiocracy" for a dystopian vision of why this is happening and what the outcome might likely be.
- charonn0 14y agoFor a detailed explanation, see the soon-to-be-reclassified-as-a-documentary film Idiocracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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- firefoxman1 14y agoIt means that in developed countries there is almost no natural selection, and it's unethical to weed out weak genes synthetically because that's called a holocaust.
- lostnet 14y agoActually weeding out "weak" genes is eugenics, it is increasingly done without genocide. This appears to be a larger ethical issue today (and certainly in the 60s and 70s) than during the holocaust.