If we neutered everybody who scored under 130 IQ, what do you think society would look like in 3 generations?

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It would be full of people who are okay with that kind of bullshit, because that would be a requirement to pull off that kind of bullshit.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We are getting a lot of brave replies like that.

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• lonewalk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  An unethical, evil bastard society that ought to be extinct.

  Unequivocally, death to eugenics.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most people wouldn’t have the courage to assert such a controversial opinion.

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is disturbingly reminiscent of eugenics.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thank you captain obvious

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know what’s weird? I’ve heard it so many times: getting a PhD is about putting in the work and less about being intelligent.

  From my perspective, if we want a smarter society, we need a society willing to do the work of actually being smart and informed. But that kinda has to start with us, who are loathe to read a god damn book, let alone substantively be informed. So, yeah, makes perfect sense that it’d be easier to just be unethical than put in the work.

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  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From my perspective, if we want a smarter society, we need a society willing to do the work of actually being smart and informed.

    That may help, but also you need a society that values education, gives people the time to do that work, and has schools that preserve people’s curiosity rather than gradually extinguish it.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This suggests that intelligence is either the ability or willingness to focus. Or the ability/willingness to focus on certain “smart materials”.

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes…yes it does.

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• quicksand@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least we wouldn’t have to worry about your genes propagating

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Full of people that cheat on IQ tests.

  Being smart doesn’t make one good at things. IQ tests don’t actually measure smart. It was developed as a test for children, to catch those needing extra help.

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• Electric_Druid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apart from eugenics being fucked up and monstrous, IQ is an antiquated measure of only one very specific kind of intelligence so your premise is inherently flawed.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You people are like some kind of low-hanging-fruit harvester’s convention.

    And what premise? There’s no premise there as far as I can tell.

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    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you should stop taking BuzzFeed quizzes and go look up what “premise” means.

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• spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nazi Germany

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Assuming you didn’t standardize the IQ each generation back to 100 like you should…

  It wouldn’t exist. The number of people over 130IQ that pro-create (and more specifically how many children they have) simply isn’t high enough. That’s only 2% of the population to start with, and you’d have to find viable pairs between people who often hate each other.

  The entire economy would collapse, you’d be lucky to end up with even 100 million people globally at the end of 3 generations without some sort of forced breeding program.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One would think that a passably smart society would handle tweaking the test, population replacement and the economy just fine. They don’t strike me as significant barriers. I mean seriously. Do you have anything better?

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Full of soulless monsters? What answer were you looking for dude? What answer do you think would justify genocide through mass sterilization?

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Such passion. I can tell that your heart is in the right place.

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• Today@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We would lose a lot of art and creativity, customer service at every company would be empty, everyone would believe they’re too smart to work basic service jobs so infrastructure would collapse. Lots of high IQers have pretty low motivation, especially for things outside their specific interests, so I think we would have very fast cars and really good recreational drugs. There are some who believe that the increase in autism comes from similarly minded people procreating, so that could be an issue.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LOL. “We would suffer a lack of fast food professionals”.

    But yes, such a filter would necessarily exclude all the good deviants too. It is not a perfect test.

    Do you think that there would be less violence? Would the government become saner? Would there be less pollution? Could we reverse global warming?

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While I agree that stupid people shouldn’t breed, anyone with the idea that they should be forced to become neutered should be counted among them.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But that doesn’t answer the question.

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    • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a dumb question and you know it.

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• mawkishdave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ya it doesn’t work that way.

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