• Kairos
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    05 months ago

    embrace of eugenics

    I genuinely don’t know where this comes from? Did I miss something in the movie?

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Because its premise is that stupid parents exclusively get stupid children, and stupid parents gets more children than intelligent parents. That is how the world ends up as it is in the movie.

      But that is of course not how intelligence works. Stupid parents can get intelligent children, otherwise intelligent people would never have existed in the first place.

      Of course that doesn’t make the movie embrace eugenics. It is just an unimportantfictional premise meant to explain why the world is at it is in the movie.

      • Kairos
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        05 months ago

        Oh hmm. Does it mention genetics? It could be more of a cultural thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 months ago

        But that is of course not how intelligence works.

        But intelligence is influenced by genetics. Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.

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          • @[email protected]
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            15 months ago

            The movie doesn’t imply 100%.

            The hypothesis they use is that stupid people have more kids and become the majority. It shows the genetic selection occuring over many generations.

    • TheObviousSolution
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      15 months ago

      Recognizing a trend versus being a proponent of the most horrible to approach it is an Idiocracy level leap in logic. The movie does not endorse eugenics in any way. At most, it displays a caricature of things, like genetics, as movies are apt to do.