• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’m maybe being unfair to say idiots are having more kids.

    It is a growing case where people who score relatively higher in awareness of world events to choose not to have kids at all. Between the environment and, well, gestures broadly that group of people is choosing to not have kids.

    Calling people idiots or not, that’s overly broad. I understand that. There are material negative pressures felt by people who value understanding the state of the world, that are not felt by those who don’t.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      Higher awareness of world events is not a genetic trait

      That’s where eugenics falls apart. It oversimplifies genetics and people and leads to genocide.

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      18 hours ago

      Yes, we have an anti-birth set of memes going around.

      But people sharing your memes doesn’t mean they are smarter.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        I don’t subscribe to the doomerism mentality and I think it’s counter productive precisely because of the argument laid out in Idiocracy

        But people sharing your memes doesn’t mean they are smarter.

        I went to great lengths in my previous point to say exactly that. Was that still unclear?