And by “truly stupid” I mean any question that upsets the straights.
Dude, you only say that after you got upset by the answers you received.
The truly stupid questions get censored by the moderators. Have you noticed?
Submitted 1 year ago by dope@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No really. It got removed.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If your post truly was about eugenics, then it would have run afoul of the instances rules.
To explain, eugenics is and always has been a concept rooted in racism- there’s no way around it. No one who has ever advocated for eugenics has ever done so in good faith, despite their claims.
Besides which, who gets to define what intelligence even is? You? A guy who can’t even see why this topic is offensive? I think not.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Then use a different no stupid questions community on a different instance. That’s the great thing about federation.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s less to do with tolerating stupid questions and more to do with the fact it was against their rules…Rule 5 in particular. If you waited, you might’ve been able to eke by on their joke/troll question day.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You know what I do when I don’t like the place I’m at? I leave.
Please. Leave.
catsup@lemmy.one 1 year ago
ITT: OP gets pissy because the moderators didn’t let him disrespect the people who answered the question in his post.
This community is called NoStupidQuestions, not NoStupidPeople
Vaggumon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s an easy block.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
ROFL! Pseudo-intellectual troll got bitchslapped, then publicly whines about said bitchslapping without seeing the irony.
This is classic Reddit. I missed this!
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
i mean, all your questions have been asked in bad faith or you already know the answer. Just like this question you asked, you already know.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want a “real” answer, it’s that the small number of people left on earth at that point would quickly split into groups and start warring with each other over resources since all infrastructure would probably shut down with no one left to do menial day to say jobs anymore. If not that then the people with 180 IQs would start planning to sterilize half the remaining population and that would start a war. The fundamental flaw in your hypothesis is assuming that these so called “smart” people would also have common sense, empathy, or just common decency but since they’re all super cool with forced sterilization then they probably have none of these
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 1 year ago
Huh? I must be missing something. How is that a response to the topic?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was a response to the post he made about mass sterilization for anyone with an IQ below 130. It got deleted because of his childish responses to everyone who disagreed with him and he came here to cry about it
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m glad you put this here. It got deleted while I was working on an answer on your IQ neutering question.
Ok, so everyone has established that the concept is evil.
Now that that’s settled, let’s hypothesize.
I looked up the percentile chart for IQ, and it’s probably not completely accurate, but it gives us somewhere to start.
So, you’ve made it so 97.7% of the current population cannot reproduce. That leaves 181.4 million potential parents.
The WHO estimates that one in 6 people experience infertility. That leaves us with 149.6 million potential parents. Roughly the population of Russia.
Of those who are naturally able to reproduce and passed your IQ test, only 30% of them are between the ages of 20-39. At any given time you’d have 45 million people who are at the age to have a child. Sure, you could go a little younger, or older, but we’re talking about a society of geniuses. They will be less likely to get knocked up in high school, or risk the potential effects of a geriatric pregnancy.
These people will be spread out across the whole world. So, let’s just assume they will be scattered equally throughout the 6 habitable continents. Australia would probably not have as many fertile geniuses as the entirety of Europe or Asia, they only have 26M total people as it is, so let’s just loop them in with nearby Asia and divide by 5.
Each continent now has about 9 million potential parents.
Let’s zoom in on North America, because that’s where I live, and the numbers work out well. North America is 9.5 million square miles. That works out to a little less than one fertile person per square mile.
You haven’t completely eliminated the less intelligent people, so our fertile geniuses will still be interacting with the “dummies”, and whether you like it or not, they will fall in love and not have children.
And I just realized we didn’t even count the 5-10% of people who are gay. They probably won’t be procreating much.
So, if you were lucky enough to pass the test, and wanted to start a family, you’d have to find one of the 1.5 million straight Members of the opposite sex scattered across the continent. And then one of you will have to uproot and move cross country just to be together, and it would probably help if you had some things in common or found each other attractive.
We’d never see the third generation. Humankind would die out before that happened.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A minor logistical problem. We can organize the smarties. We’d have a breeding program.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude. This might be why your shit gets deleted.
I didn’t like that the only responses you got were “Oh my God that’s horrible! You can’t say such things!”
It is horrible, but horrible things happen. Let’s think out the scenario and see what happens. It took me a good 20 minutes to look up the numbers, do the math, and think of other obstacles you’d encounter.
I wanted to offer a theory with a little bit of thought and effort behind it. I finally got to share it and your only response is “Nah, we’d figure it out.”
If you’re going to present these wacky scenarios, (and yes, I have noticed your username attached to quite a few provocative questions lately) at least be willing to put some thought into it yourself. Tell me how “we can organize the smarties”.
If you want to have open thoughtful discussions about hypothetical situations, I think we should be able to do that, but if you just dismiss anyone who doesn’t think you just had a great idea, get out.