I see the phrase "genetic lottery" quite often. But are your children's genes wholly the result of randomness? https://twitter.com/kph3k/status/1019970364292632576 …
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Replying to @Steve_Sailer
Her book survived the writing and editorial lottery, so there's that.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
... Serious academic voice: "Because farmers have no choice but to play the genetic lottery with their crops, all key nutritional indices have remained roughly unchanged for 10,000 years ... oh wait."
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
... "Think of all those animal breeders trapped in lunatic schemes to trick the genetic lottery." "Totally. And thank goodness human mating isn't selective."
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
... [Stopping now before I literally asphyxiate in my own sarcasm.]
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
Are you serious? The idea behind the genetic lottery metaphor is that children don't get to choose their own genes, not that parents have no control over their offspring's genes.
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Replying to @salonium @Steve_Sailer
How is that anything like a lottery?
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... It's raw Rawlesian psychosis hiding in the petticoats of a nonsensical metaphor.
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... "Hey, you could have been simply anybody, you know." [Neural empathy module run amok.] "Why on earth would you say that?" "Religious reasons."
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... "It's a lottery." "That's what they call parents now?"
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