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Old 12-29-14 | 11:18 PM
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Six jours
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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.
Kind of amazing to me that there are people so useless they cannot go for a bicycle ride without suffering life-threatening injuries.

Even more amazing is when those same folks shout "Darwin!" at cyclists who can manage to go for a bicycle ride without suffering life threatening injuries.
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