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Are we seeing the beginnings of Idocracy?

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Hooker, Aug 7, 2013.

  1. Dogfish

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    I can see the logic in that.

    Maybe its just that people are having to work harder to have a high IQ/Salary and have less time for family and procreation...

    I mean its easy to breed for success when you practice all the time cause your bored with your low rent have no money life
     
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    Anomalies or shifts are not analyzed as separate entities they are grouped. What elitist attitudes tend to overlook is that positive integers can become negative and negative integers can become positive and actually do. What I mean by this is the educated intelligent couples that are having children are also breeding idiocracy. There are as many spoiled little brats in our society contributing to idiocracy as there are innocent children that have been dealt a bad hand. Trying to generalize culture shifts by blaming the less fortunate is condescending, fiction and misleading.
     
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    I just finished up taking an Anthropology class and Hook's statement goes right along with Anthropologist findings.
     
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    Why? So far it has been a pretty civil discussion.
     
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    ;) I have had a couple classes myself.
     
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    I don't even...
     
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    my thoughts exactly
     
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    Well being an Electrical Engineering major, it'll be my only one. I took it to fill a general education requirement.
     
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    I agree...I would say there is definitely a correlation between amount of time it takes to be succesful, etc. thus not devoting as much time to starting a family and so forth.

    I will say that I would consider my parents to be very successful and they managed to have two good children that have now gone to do well for themselves. With that being said, my mom came from a rougher family but has managed to do exceptionally well which would mean that she is not really following the rule real well.
     
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    Tax exemptions and credits also make it an easy decision for lower tax bracket persons to procreate, even though they are more than likely not fit for parenting.
     
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    What do you consider uneducated hooker ?
     
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    So what your trying to say is that, we can fix stupid ? We just need to get them to breed in integals !
     
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    I am trying to say the lower class can make good choices and the higher class can make bad choices. It works both ways, not one way.
     
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    It wasn't all that long ago that the medical field held more control over the quality of reproduction in this country than the financial one does in todays America.
    Access to health care or the lack of plays a huge roll in the reproductive success rates in the world today, and that access is made available through education. Education takes money.
    "Poverty" in America is far different from "poverty" in many of the third world countries .
     
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    Perhaps there is a link between IQ and sperm count .
     
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    You missed it by about 8 years:)
     
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    ​Hooter!
     
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    You may be correct..
     

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