Humans slowly but surely losing intellectual & emotional abilities?
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Humans slowly but surely losing intellectual & emotional abilities?
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#2which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities
What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
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#3which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
It means that the amount by which smart people out breed less smart people has decreased.
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#5which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
Refer to the film "idiocracy" for a dystopian vision of why this is happening and what the outcome might likely be.
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#6which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
For a detailed explanation, see the soon-to-be-reclassified-as-a-documentary film Idiocracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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#7Neuroskeptic has a good response to these articles at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/11/were-probably-not-g..., essentially arguing against Crabtree's thesis for being too speculative.
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#8which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
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#9which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
It means that in developed countries there is almost no natural selection, and it's unethical to weed out weak genes synthetically because that's called a holocaust.
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#10which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
It means that in developed countries there is almost no natural selection, and it's unethical to weed out weak genes synthetically because that's called a holocaust.
Actually weeding out "weak" genes is eugenics, it is increasingly done without genocide. This appears to be a larger ethical issue today (and certainly in the 60s and 70s) than during the holocaust.