What if kindness is being slowly bred out of the human gene pool and we’re turning into a Cardassian+Vogon type species? 🤔
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Come on. You’re way too intelligent to think this. I need people to look up to. Don’t soil it.
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It’s not a pleasant thought but is it a dumb thought? I can make a pretty intelligent case for it.
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We seem to be breeding toward some asocial machine caretaker thing.
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Of all the things, it's the opposite that's happening. Why do say this?
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If you use History™️ to investigate, this seems unlikely on empirical grounds (Pinker, Singer, ...).
Beyond that the breeding time scale is REALLY long compared to culture. One presidential cycle, even one lifetime, is nothing...
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"Once Damiens was dismembered, to the applause of the crowd, his reportedly still-living torso was burnt at the stake."
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