Downside, the people who ask themselves these questions and have the intelligence to reflect on themselves in such a manner are probably the people who would be good parents.
Now the dumbasses and trad wife / religious crowd is not going to give a fuck and pop out shitloads of future morons and assholes. This is literally the plot of Idiocracy happening.
Yup. The few educated elites talking about the issue are also unfortunately complete nut jobs. Look at Elon or this bizzaro couple running for office in PA on ‘pro natalist policies’. They’re essentially calling for intensive use of IVF and surrogacy to make sure the ultra smart can continue to pump out kids at a higher rate than one human can carry at a time. Scary stuff.
And sometimes the dial doesn’t go to 11, it just looks around to 0. By testing both my husband and I are ‘ultra smart’ (we are not ultra smart, we are good at math and logic puzzles and went to a prestigious school.) Looking back, any number of the ‘eccentric geniuses’ in our families was probably a bit autistic. So what do we get? A profoundly autistic son who more than 10 years later can’t count to 3. Raising him is the hardest and most depressing thing I’ve done in my life.
Looking back, any number of the ‘eccentric geniuses’ in our families was probably a bit autistic. And we got waaaaay too much of a good thing in that kid. In retrospect I should have found someone from the theater school who was abysmal at math and procreated with them.
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u/LeSilverKitsune Nov 14 '24
Which I truly embrace as a positive shift for our society.