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Eugenics is back!
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I love how natural selection has become personified by redditbros & co. as some man behind the curtain literally selecting things that are Universally Good™. Surely it couldn't be just the effect of random mutations on an organism's fitness in a particular environment or range of environments
Picturing Steve Buscemi's character in Spy Kids 2 punching the wall when he learns about penicillin
Shoutouts to the educators trying to instill into people that 'natural selection' doesn't magically turn animals into some mythical super strong super smart optimized ubermensch creatures after being cooked in the oven long enough, it just optimizes for animals who are able to successfully propagate enough to replace the dead.
'Natural selection' could 'optimize' towards hominids that almost universally die of health complications around 25 as long as they are better at surviving to maturity and cumming in each other and popping out a bunch of babies to continue the cycle.
If the eugenicist model was correct, we would be overrun by super-intelligent and super-strong baby turtles within days, since only like 1 in 10.000 survive to adulthood.
Perhaps the turtles are hiding their power and biding their time. Those shells could be hiding Hamas bases with WMD by now for all we know
If the eugenicist model was correct then we would all become crabs as it is clearly the most efficient form
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
who were those two fascist breeding losers that were profiled in the atlantic or whatever last year? they were trying to breed superchildren but at risk of being ableist, neither of them would survive in the wild. they seemed pretty good at capitalism and spreadsheets but were really just complete treat babies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley/
Telegraph did an interview of these two absolute gigaweirdoes from Philly who are representative of the "pronatalist" wing of Effective Altruism/Capital-R Rationalism.
Yes that's right, those are them. Fucking worms.
I've taken bio classes before, and my professor literally insisted that I NEVER assign human values to nature. Eugenics is assigning a human value to nature and therefore I have a logical reason to oppose eugenics.