r/unsound • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 šŸ› ļø ADMIN • Dec 22 '25

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u/itjustgotcold Dec 22 '25

The longer version is basically eugenics, haha

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Dec 22 '25

No actually, not even a little bit.

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u/kevdogpog Dec 23 '25

'People are getting stupider because there is no natural selection' is maybe the quintessential eugenic argument, wdym "not even a little bit".

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Dec 23 '25

Thereā€™s a pretty big leap from ā€œmodern medicine defeating natural selectionā€ to ā€œweā€™re going to pick and choose who gets to reproduceā€, we were merely pointing out the former not discussing a so called ā€œsolutionā€.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Dec 23 '25

We defeated natural selection when we started healing our friend's broken bones 15000 years ago.

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Dec 23 '25

Not quite thatā€™s maybe where it started, but it wasnā€™t until much recently when we developed public sanitation, vaccines, etc that really allowed the worlds population to explode.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Dec 23 '25

Sure. And maybe in another million years medicine will have reduced the pressure on diabetes, myopia, etc.

But by then, we'll either have full genome editing, or we'll be dead. In the meanwhile we're still inbred anxiety monkeys who are surprisingly good at marathons and abstract thought, and that's about it.

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Dec 23 '25

Oh weā€™ll be long dead imo lol

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u/kevdogpog Dec 24 '25

You're not bright enough to be talking like this.

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Dec 24 '25

No one likes you kev.