Natural selection didn’t go anywhere. Dumb parents killing their kids with their stupidity, all to pad the pockets of those who run our bread and circuses.
Genetics plays a relatively small part when it comes to intelligence, and even if you have 2 parents as thick as planks, that can be overcome. Even if it that weren’t the case, this line of thinking leads to some very dark eugenicy roads. Not saying this is what you’re suggesting of course, I’m just pointing out that from a societal POV, we can’t afford to just call it natural selection and move on. Not least of all because it’s the completely innocent children that are the ones to suffer the consequences. Also, IMO, it’s not an intelligence thing. It’s a misinformation thing. (insert garfield propaganda meme here) It’s yet another symptom of a much wider movement in the world to discredit science and muddy the waters, deliberately trying to keep people scared and isolated.
Natural selection didn’t go anywhere. Dumb parents killing their kids with their stupidity, all to pad the pockets of those who run our bread and circuses.
Genetics plays a relatively small part when it comes to intelligence, and even if you have 2 parents as thick as planks, that can be overcome. Even if it that weren’t the case, this line of thinking leads to some very dark eugenicy roads. Not saying this is what you’re suggesting of course, I’m just pointing out that from a societal POV, we can’t afford to just call it natural selection and move on. Not least of all because it’s the completely innocent children that are the ones to suffer the consequences. Also, IMO, it’s not an intelligence thing. It’s a misinformation thing. (insert garfield propaganda meme here) It’s yet another symptom of a much wider movement in the world to discredit science and muddy the waters, deliberately trying to keep people scared and isolated.
Not my point but well said.