This can't be true... right?

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[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Smart kids aren't useful if they lead broken lives and never amount to much. That's what single parenthood brings, broken people.

[–]ReeferMadness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

That has nothing to do with the genetic portion of IQ which is what eugenics can improve.

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It allows IQ to better determine reproductive success.

[–]ReeferMadness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's like draining a lake to salvage a sunken ship. There are far better ways to improve genetics.

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is how good genetics formed, by the natural rewards of reality favoring being smart and resourceful.

[–]ReeferMadness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The majority of selection was surviving weather, starvation, and later war. It had fuck all to do with parenting. Because parenting CAN NOT make you smarter (higher IQ). It can make you "smarter"(intelligent, better at doing known things). IQ gives you the ability to solve NEW problems. The only natural selection that works to increase IQ, which is heritable while intelligence is not, is that which selects for IQ specifically.

Therefore wealth selects for low IQ by giving low IQ people the means to survive where they would otherwise have died. Poor parenting, and poverty leave the kids with only their wits to save them. Only the high IQ survive.

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

High IQ isn't enough. You can break any human with adverse treatment. You can't raise it, but you can effectively lower it by crippling a person in life.

[–]ReeferMadness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is completely irrelevant to eugenics.