A friend of mine raised a very interesting point yesterday that is kind of relevant. The people who have supposedly the "best" genes, the educated, intelligient people are the ones who are choosing to not have kids, or to focus on their career first until they can afford kids etc. And the ones who couldn't care less and are the worst people you want to breed, are the ones having loads of kids.
I was just thinking in terms of the voluntary human extinction thing, or a one child policy. The people who would suscribe to those ideas will be at least somewhat educated in order to see there is an overpopulation problem etc. Does that mean that if all the intelligent people stop having children humans will "devolve" and become less intelligent?
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