• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is horrific.

    The part of me traumatized by our society drives my cynical obtrusive thought: this will cull some of the stupid genes from the pool.

    Maybe idiocracy is not inevitable. Maybe the stupid, selfish,fear-consumed will remove themselves from the healthier parts of humanity. Too bad I won’t be around for the better world.

    • wjrii@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The absolute numbers are still very low, and these folks tend to have more babies overall, so I don’t think there’s much silver lining here, even a grim one. They’re just accepting higher infant mortality for no good reason because they don’t understand statistics or that evolution doesn’t care about “perfect” or about any individual baby (or anything else of course, because it’s just a biological principle, but you take my meaning).

      You have to work with who gets born and just try to bring as much critical thinking and empathy into the world as you can. If anything “good” will come of this, it will be as cautionary tales parents and doctors tell pregnant people.

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        2 days ago

        Even worse, they’re accepting infant mortality because “master white race” and fear of being the minority in 2045.

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      At this point I am much worried about the future effect of evil bloodlines then of stupid ones.

      They do often go hand in hand, granted, but there are some wonderful stupid and/or mentally handicapped folks out there.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      This is society healing itself of modernity and returning to its natural form. Soon the average lifespan shall once again be a healthy 25, just as Mother Gaia intended.