When I take over the world, I really will find a way to eliminate anyone with an IQ under 110.
Robots are capable of any task done by someone with an IQ lower than that. we don’t need these people. They just clog up our roads, breathe our air, and pollute our gene pool. (I should probably be more concerned about the genepool and the air, but it’s the roads that bug me most.)
I will make a point of finding a means of administering this test that is in no way culturally biased so that just as many stupid white people die as their stupid counterparts of other skin-tones, and that a similar percentage of smart people of all ethnicities survive (except for swiss people, they must all die).
Since we’ve stopped natural selection and replaced it with a new notion of “the geographically superior” survive, (meaning if you happen to live in a western country with strong military alliances, regardless of how poor your genes, you survive and so do your progeny simply because of geography) we’re essentially encourging an endless supply of Baby-Ruths in the gene pool.
Our modern western all important question of “Is it good for the children?” is a step in the right direction, but it’s too short term, think not of the children but of the future of the species. The idea of “is it good for the children?” isn’t really about the children anyway, it’s about the adults in their lives and their own selfish motivations:
“Is it good for the child to have a parent in prison? No, your honor, it’s not, and that’s why you must acquit!”
“Is it good for a child to not grow up with grandparents? No, that’s why we need to work to end a ll diseases.”
“Is it good for a child to die prematurely of a disease? No, it’s important (s)he be given the chance to grow up and have children.”
You see, the logic provides an excuse for selfish motivations of a few generations, and doesn’t look to the actual future beyond the generations that they’ve physically met. It’s in fact detrimental to the future of the species in terms of the gene pool as strong genes don’t fix and replace weaker ones, the weaker ones only dilute the strong pool.
I’m open to other suggestions if people don’t want to breed for intelligence. I’d be just as open to breeding for strength, or beauty, or artistic ability, or any number of things as long as we’re going to take things in a direction and stir this stagnate water…
“Is swimming in sewage good for the children?”