That feeling we have...

[Scythe13]

(7 January 2013, 15:53)Skean Dhude Wrote: Scythe,

When we first herded together for survival we started to lose that survival instinct. We sub contracted out hunting and farming and all the other things and specialised. That would be fine but then we got soft hearted and decided to keep alive people who would never have survived. Even then it was OK because we paid for that ourselves and kept it in the family. Now we have people having children and passing on genetic malfunctions that can only survive with funding from others, they will never contribute to society. I feel sorry for them because when the wheels come off and they need to start walking or die they just will be unable to leave the bus. We have diluted our gene pool after millions of years of evolution and it is not going to be pretty.

I completely agree.

Never in history has life been so 'cushy' where anyone is able to survive. People with a low physical ability, people of low intelligence, low strength, low capability, low adaptability, are currently able to thrive in society. Previously, some societies rejected the mentally defunct people. People less 'hardy' were killed off by the cold and other such things.

Only now, in society, are people with little to know purpose, been able to thrive! Since the 1900's the human race has had the largest expansion of genetically defunct people living in society. Eugenics is a very touchy subject, and I'm not going to say it's the right thing, but modern society provides so much for the population, that instead of helping those that provide benefit, that have purpose, we harbour ANYONE! We no longer have that heavy winter to kill off the weaker of the flock.

It's not a good thing for genetics to be diluted to the point where the average IQ is the same as a pizza.

The only form of population control currently available is war. Other than that, the odd natural disaster is a good help. We are over populated and under clever! Not under educated, as we have LOADS of education available. It's just that society is not clever enough to see the benefits of that education.