You embarrassingly tried to strawman it by using language like “this will guarantee her kids...”
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Then therefore the fact that you can use contraception and having sex does not automatically produce offspring is "dysgenics", making the Pill available is an action that reduced the chance of the "best" genes being passed on
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This is nonsense on multiple levels but they really really care about this narrative, to them it's the whole central theory that they use to explain human history Scott Alexander was REALLY into this shit during his incel years (and probably still is but has just toned it down)
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but where does contraception come in??? i mean, non-reproductive sex is extremely obviously neutral with respect to genetics, wtf
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Eugenics is not exactly known for its scientific accuracy
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Which is how you wind up with peacocks, which have grossly impractical tail feathers that make them considerably worse at flying and other practical stuff, due to too much selection based on what peahens find attractive rather than actual survival traits.
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Yes, whether "sexual selection" of this kind actually has a long term effect of "maximizing fitness" rather than just being a garden path evolution goes down is a very complicated topic that these people have very stupid basic takes one
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