Why does my brain do this to me?

[trickykitty]

I find it peculiar that a person like me (little income, unstable, student) would be laughed at if I attempted to adopt a child (and no I'm not even considering it - just the princple I'm mentioning popping into my head), yet nothing prevents me from finding some guy on the street and creating a child of my own, thereby adding to the "population explosion".

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[reneat.livejournal.com]

This is why all girls at the age of sexual maturity should have a shunt inserted. When they want to reproduce they should have to pass a test. This way all the little dip shits that my mother has to teach most likely wouldn't exist. (Parents who don't give a shit about their children and want someone else to raise their kids.)

[isotripy.livejournal.com]

controlling the right to reproduce brings up all sorts of issues - eugenics anyone?

[reneat.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know. It is one of those things that works in theory, but is bound to get into the wrong hands. I've just gotten increadibly tired of handling parents who don't give a rats ass about their kids. There are entirely too many nut jobs out there having kids today.

[isotripy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do know where the feeling comes from, but the smart ones also have to have the responsibility to see through an emotional desire to all the possible implications it can have.

[jconstantine.livejournal.com]

Eugenics, bring it. If the human race wants to remain on top, we've got to start controlling our population, or the idiots will outbreed us.

[isotripy.livejournal.com]

I disagree, who are we to control nature, all the clever ones might have a defective gene - we wont know until it happens and we all die out. Also we have no right to say that idiots have no right to live. It was only recently (the 70's) that America *did* forcibly sterilise people with down syndrome and the like, and If you know any of these people you would realise that they have a kindness and beauty that few 'normal' people posses.
The human race is in no danger of not being the top of the pecking order re specicies, and even if we weren't, say if dolphins or apes took over, may be that wouldn't be such a bad thing for our planet ;)

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the sci-fi geek in me coming out, but...

There is an episode of Star Trek: TNG, where the crew come upon a planet of a genetically superior race which is doomed because another planet/large meteor is approaching and about to take out their planet. It is Giordi's visor (the blind guy) which provides the technology required to send the meteor in another direction. One of the characters mentions that his "fallacy" is what saved them. If there never existed a blind man or the technology that ensued to get him to become a seeing individual, then the planet of genetically enhanced humans would have perished. They never thought to even pursue the technology required to get a blind man to see because none of them ever would have been born blind.

Also known as serendipity.

[isotripy.livejournal.com]

Star trek analogy, yay!
Yeah thats kind of my point, things may not work out the way we think they should.

[smokedamage.livejournal.com]

humans are so barely natural nowadays, i don't know if we count as "nature".

We need licenses to own guns, get married, drive cars, yet anyone can reproduce if they are lucky enough to have all the right bits. Seriously, i am all about some form of process being put into place to stop the unwanted trailer trash being born into poverty and lack of care. I fail to see the point.