Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
[responding to Matthew Ross]
> OK, if by "the rational thing from a biologists perspective" you mean
> "what most intelligent people would want to see."  We agree on that.  I'd
> like to see social systems that promote reproduction of the most
> intelligent and healthy people.  I think we can do a lot better than we
> are doing now.  I'm not saying we should be coercive like the Nazi's were
> (e.g., sterilizing the putatively mediocre against their wishes), but we
> can change the tax code and welfare regulations in accordance with the
> principle that 'better' people make 'better' children.
> 

I'm afraid things are usually not that simple. Have any of your heard of 
California's "Geek Syndrome"?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers.html

Don't know if it's an isolated case or a trend, but its implications are 
intriguing. You both are also forgetting that our "civilized and 
well-educated" society was built on the ignorance of the Middle Ages when few 
posessed what we now consider basic knowledge. It seems that people as a 
society tend to get smarter with time (do not confuse this with people as a 
mob where group IQ is inversely proportional to the crowd size :).

-- 
MK

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