Stop flamming new guys

[Wedge]

Evidently you guys slept through biology class because random mating is natural selection.

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[onyx6]

I love how this has gone from flaming newbs to biology arguments.

[General Omega]

Omega's 2 step guide to derailing arguments.

1. be me
2. post

By the force of my mind being random I can derail arguments by taking a simple subject and making it much more complicated eventually derailing it in a few post.

[DrMobius]

Natural selection is not random mating.

[Wedge]

Natural selection isn't caused by births it's caused by deaths. Preferences don't change anything.

Natural selection isn't people picking who they want to mate with based on traits, that is breeding. Natural selection is when a meteor hits the earth and everyone dies except those who can breathe sulfur monoxide and metabolize rocks.

And random mating isn't natural selection either, I blame it on temporary insanity.

EDIT: Glad you explained your random dictionary reference through a ninja edit, I had no clue what you were talking about before. Unfortunately your dictionary reference doesn't support any of your previous claims, it disproves both yours and mine.

[rkynick]

Just because A mates with B doesnt mean offspring C is going to be handicapped like A and/or B.

The problem stems from society becoming overprotective and its keeping the idiots from dying off when they should've.

[Wedge]

And what is the problem with keeping them alive? $12 of your taxes (I'm making this number up, I don't have a source, but it's most likely a minimal portion of your taxes. Over 50% is spent on the defense budget, go complain about that first.) is wasted on welfare checks helping support the poor handicapped guy who sits in a workshop all day, assembling small wooden toys to sell at the county fair because he doesn't have anything else to do all day and no one will give him a real job. Give me a break.

Oh, hah, stupid people. Well, it is pretty subjective, couldn't really come up with a great way to test that.

[Snackbar]

Just because A mates with B doesnt mean offspring C is going to be handicapped like A and/or B.

Er... Biology much?

If you've got two adults who are mentally deficient and are actually capable of reproducing (Some of the disorders that cause mental deficiency also cause the victim of the disorder to be sterile), they've got a high chance of creating a child that is also mentally deficient, especially if they share the same disorder.

[rkynick]

handicapped in the sense of idiotic, not exactly mentally deficient.

4.   Slang: Disparaging.
a.   a mentally handicapped person.
b.   a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social handicap.

[DrMobius]

This now belongs in off topic.

[Muffinmix]

Natural selection is not random mating.

I tried explaining this stuff to some guys on another server a while back, and got "THAT'S NOT TRUE I DON'T BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION OH AND MY INEXPLICABLY 30 YEARS OLDER COUSIN IS A DOCTORATE BIOLOGIST SPECIALIZING IN DNA SPLICING AND SHE TOLD ME THAT WHAT YOU SAID WAS NOT TRUE WHAT THE *^$#"

I'm not even going to attempt to explain this one guys, better read up before spreading anymore stupid around.

[Dilt]

You know, I've got nothing aganist most of these people. They're just younger and less experienced with the ways of the internet. If you just gave them a little bit of time and teaching, they would probably turn out to be alright people after some time (presuming they're willing, that is). Bandana Man suggests that this is something everyone should follow.

[Ronin]

Like you could ever isolate the genome sequence that is responsible for common sense. Even if they could, messing with it would probably make a person even worse.