I’ve got nothing for todays. Im not into motorcycles or if people risk their lives.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    I really really don’t like the premise of this one. That somehow intelligence is a heritable trait. This is borderline Nazi eugenics shit.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      11 days ago

      Hmmm. Are you certain that genetics doesn’t play a part in potential?

      People should be judged by their behaviors; we should not be predisposed based on genealogy. But the cartoon is judging someone by their behavior. They could just as well be assuming that the unsafe motorcyclist could be a bad parent who will teach stupid behaviors, as well as assuming their offspring will be handicapped by genes.

      Black people are more at risk of leukemia. Native Americans are more at risk of drug dependency. Redheads have a stronger resistance to many pain medications. White people are more at risk of skin cancer. Why do you assume genetic predisposition stops at the brain or intelligence?

      We have no evidence that intelligence is linked to race, but the artist isn’t basing their assumptions on race, but behavior. Trump’s kids seem no smarter than he is, which isn’t very.

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      To my knowledge it is? Or at least it influences the final result - poverty will completely nullify any genetic advantage, but in higher socioeconomic backgrounds there is a correlation between the intelligence of parents and their adult children.
      Under capitalism socioeconomic factors definitely play the biggest part in intelligence so I still get what you mean, but I’d say it’s more liberal idealism than actually eugenicist.

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      11 days ago

      Also a group of women being turned off by a guy not wearing safety gear and not wanting offspring with him is the argument? what if the guy is gay should he endanger himself now? what if he’s a woman and she doesn’t want to have kids?