Pissing in the Gene Pool

(This is really going to piss people off. I think I've hit the jackpot!)

Okay, to start off, here's a quick and mostly correct rundown of how genetic code (DNA) works with evolution. Your genetic code determines everything about your physical and mental being at the time of your birth, and for a little while afterward. Some parts of your body and personality are dictated by your environment and the choices you make later on, but such things as eye color are dictated by your genes. Evolution works by stripping out the specimens of a species who are not genetically viable, i.e., unable to survive long enough to pass on their faulty genes. Faulty genes can range from having bad eyesight to being absolutely freaking retarded. It used to be, if you couldn't get your own food, take care of yourself, etc., you would die. But modern civilization, with its strong desire that everyone deserves to live, is pissing in the gene pool.

What do I mean by that, you ask? Well, what we are doing is keeping the people who are not genetically viable alive long enough to give them a chance to pass on their genes. Now, there's nothing wrong with giving glasses to people with bad eyesight, or helping out a blind or deaf person. We can afford that kind of thing. What I worry about is the people who in no way could survive in the wild at the dawn of mankind, when even the strongest and brightest got snuffed on a regular basis. By giving the kid born without kidneys a transplant, we give him the chance, however slim, to pass on his kidneyless-ness to any children he might have.

Look people, it's real simple. It's all about natural selection. The kid who drinks a bottle of Drano doesn't live to pass on his stupidity gene to the next generation. The kid who stays out from under the cabinet, lives (maybe) to pass on his caution to the next generation. Now, I know there might not be "stupidity" or "caution" genes, but DNA isn't the only way to pass your intelligence (or lack thereof) to your kids.

I'm not saying we should have a Nazi-style eugenics program. We should try to solve our own problems. Not try to create some stupid "master race," since there's no such thing anyway. What we should do, it think about the consequences of our actions. We need to try and envision what the world might look like in 1000 years. Will it be better? Worse? Will technology, civilization, hell, even thought be slowed down because we let the non-viable specimens of our species pass on their problems to the next generation? Also, I'm not saying we should kill babies, although I do love a good dead baby joke. Killing a baby is possibly the sickest thing imaginable...Unless the poor kid might be better off dead, y'know?

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.