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Do people with inferior genetics feel bad about reproducing?

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HamburgerBoy said:
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my gut tells me that chart is right on
 
A female friend of mine has a genetic heart condition that essentially means she, and likely half of her children, will die at a young age (40ish I think). For that reason, she had a procedure to prevent her from ever becoming pregnant.
 
schneiderguy said:
If you were ugly and stupid and short and fat, would you feel bad about having babbies and passing on your inferior genes to them?

I don't have to worry about this. I have superior genetics. I'm 6'1" (the perfect height for male homo sapiens), of normal weight, my IQ is almost off the charts, and I'm a 10/10 (srs). My babbies will also have superior genes, assuming I can find a woman worthy of my seed.
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considering you had to ask means you're obviously not that smart
 
Looks and shape .... meh .

I have some issues with people that have serious geneticly linked handicaps continiously trying to have a "normal" kid. My wife has some coworkers that have MS and each of them had two or more kids....all with MS. So now they have a family full of high needs children working a $10 an hour job. And it's not like it's a fluke deal, both of them have parents and/or siblings with similar serious neurological problems too.

It's a shitty thing to say but some genes just weren't meant to be passed down.
 
What about people like me? I have verified genetics. I am not prone to most diseases, smart, healthy... but I have neuro shit passed down from my family that makes me 2x as likely to develop schizophrenia at a young age (so I'm safe at this point). I'm also neurotic as hell and prone to depression. Should I feel bad about potentially creating above average children who won't appreciate life?
 
schneiderguy said:
If you were ugly and stupid and short and fat, would you feel bad about having babbies and passing on your inferior genes to them?

I don't have to worry about this. I have superior genetics. I'm 6'1" (the perfect height for male homo sapiens), of normal weight, my IQ is almost off the charts, and I'm a 10/10 (srs). My babbies will also have superior genes, assuming I can find a woman worthy of my seed.
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In other words, your mom feels terrible about spawning you? She obviously fed you large doses of stupid pills and told you that they sent the short bus to pick you up because you were "special."
 
iamanidiot said:
What about people like me? I have verified genetics. I am not prone to most diseases, smart, healthy... but I have neuro shit passed down from my family that makes me 2x as likely to develop schizophrenia at a young age (so I'm safe at this point). I'm also neurotic as hell and prone to depression. Should I feel bad about potentially creating above average children who won't appreciate life?
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I have rheumatoid arthritis that manifested when I was 17 and, while it's not the sole reason, it's a part of the reason I won't be having kids. No reason to create a kid who would likely develop RA or pass the genes on to his/her kids who would develop RA.
 
Crono said:
Unless your genetics doom you to die at a very young age, I don't know what "inferior" is.

Neither does anyone else. What's naturally favorable (such as an athletic build such as yours) isn't necessarily good for the human race if everyone was the same.

Some undesirable genetic variations might be the key to keeping populations from being completely exterminated in the next plague.
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yep
 
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