Originally Posted by
D1andonlyDman
No, the interventionist aspect of eugenics is problematic. In Darwin's observations, the gene-pool selection occurs naturally. If you crack a helmet and emerge unimpaired, you're not selected out of the gene-pool. If, irrespective of whether or not you wear a helmet, you wreck and are no longer capable of reproduction, natural selection has done it's job.
In a modern society, physical skills such as bicycle handling may lose value relative to cognitive skills such as the decision to protect one's cranium during cycle.
If you can stay upright on your bike you'll still be better off than crashing a lot with a helmet - no broken clavicles, broken wrists, stitches in the knees, jaws wired shut, etc. I guess self-driving bicycles won't be far behind self-driving cars, then you'll be correct.
