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>The solution is to discourage the "idiots" from having kids in the first place

Eugenics have been tried several times, all over the world, and both produced terrible abuses - especially of disenfranchised social groups - and also failed miserably.

Please, let's not.




Of course not, as always, the problem would be to decide who gets to decide that certain people are idiots. History tells us that we're not very good at chosing the right ones for the job. :)




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