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I rented a small boat in Greece and the guy in the harbor showed me a map of the islands I could go to and there was a red line marking how far you were allowed to go. The guy put his hand on my shoulder and very seriously explained that the red like was not visible on the surface of the sea it was just for reference on the map. And told me about this British couple who got on the boat and drove straight on until the fuel ran out. They were lucky they still had phone signal and they called for the guy to come get them. When asked why they did that they said they couldn't see the red line so they thought it was ok...
It's incredible that humanity has done this well
I think about that guy very often lately...
Consider the mere fact that Doctors exist, and have been a thing for thousands of years. I think this tells us that for every person that is incapable of keeping themselves alive, there's at least a hundred more just like that, and just one person smart enough to keep them all going.
I mean, there was a good chunk of that time where the doctors thought that bleeding someone to balance their humors was a valid treatment for a variety of things. Some things were treated with amputation with only alcohol as an anesthetic (and disinfectant, if they happened to splash some on the wound).
And God forbid they even washed hands before an operation
The world could use some yellow paint
This reminds me of this letter published in spider-man 12:
Reference:
The Darwin award ladies and gentlemen
Definitely contenders, but they'd need to have killed themselves and/or their offspring in the process to win the prize (or caused their own infertility before having kids, but those are really rare).
Sadly I don't think they are eligible. That award is for when you remove yourself from the gene pool or you remove the ability to contribute to the gene pool.
They did give it a good try I give them that!
I never understood people being gleerfuly happy to see someone off themselves like that.
The same people who say eugenics is wrong, will cheer to see the gene-pool "purified".
I don't cheer. But it happens and there is nothing to be done. We have enough systems in place to prevent such instances but people seem to work very hard to circumvent these systems... Just think of all the warning labels and all the rules we have in place and yet when an idiot tells people raw milk is perfectly safe they just go do it... What more can any society do to prevent this? At some point it is not happiness but relief because after all the progress and all the energy that was put in pushing the civilisation to where it is now, there are people out there that are willing and they do die on hills like flat earth, raw milk, antivax and on and on...
I also disagree with the purification part. There is nothing to purify because I don't believe that stupidity is genetic. It is educated. And education is the cure. And by that I don't just mean school! Education doesn't end when school ends. It is lifelong. It is a constant observation of what goes on around you and learning from the small mistakes to avoid bigger ones. It is much to discuss on this subject
Intelligence has a significant genetic component, it follows that stupidity does too
I am not sure about this one... I see it like this: the tribes in the Amazon and the engineers who can build rockets have different types of intelligence. First ones can't build rockets but can survive and navigate the jungle where the rocket guys will die almost immediately. But a stupid person from both groups will look almost the same because it will ignore basic knowledge and will fail to apply simple logic in a situation that will lead to harm or some other disaster.
You're talking about education, that's the difference between the rocket surgeon and the tribesman
Neither could do the others job but only because they never learnt it
If I was some sort of world dictator, I would make taking a test once a year mandatory, and send people back to school, like a prison/institution for the uneducated, medical interventions added as necessary (everyone gets screened, no excepts).