Damned's Journal: I'm glad someone else saw this

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It appears that a Danish psychologist has noticed a trend I have stumbled upon. The members of society with lower intelligence and/or capability are the ones having more children while the more capable and/or intelligent are having fewer children.

I find it interesting that in universities, students are informed about the state of global overpopulation and encouraged to have fewer children but there is no system to inform and encourage others in this regard. While the more capable/intelligent (college graduates [hopefully graduates anyway]) are being pushed to have fewer children, those of less capability are dropping children right and left.

Certainly, there is an environmental component to intelligence/capability, but as with (afaik) everything else, there is also a genetic component. Those who would give the next generation greater intelligence/capability should be encouraged to have children not discouraged. The opposite should be true for the opposite.

Of course college graduate status is not the only, or necessarily best, criterion to gauge intelligence/capability from, but it's a good start. University educated people already have fewer children than those not university educated. Do we really need to dissuade their childbearing further?

The people with children should be the ones who will do the best with them, not the ones who have 8 children with no support system and don't supervise them among other things.

I saw a perfect example of people like this on Oprah (it was late at night and I just didn't change the channel after whatever late night show was on before). This suburban family (3 kids) somehow got sent to one of the countries in Africa to live with a native group for some period of time. These people were morons.

The woman (the typically fat American suburban housewife) said something like the hut they were in was the size of her closet and that the daily existence was hard work with complete surprise.

The man described the slaughtering of a goat as "graphic" and "hard" I believe. The hard bit I've no idea what he meant since he wasn't participating in the slaughter in any way. These people also did such a great job raising kids.

The oldest, a girl, seemed to be constantly crying. She said something about how people shouldn't have to kill things to eat after seeing the goat's slaughter. The middle child, a boy, said something like he thought we'd prograssed farther as humans than to slaughter animals for food and had the good sense to throw a dog's bowl into the only source of drinking water for the community. The only saving grace of the family was the youngest boy who, after a short transition period, adapted readily to the community and voiced no complaint until having to leave. This child may have learned something and should be taken away from those parents before they can damage him.

Those two parents, and others like them, should not have children. However, it is people just like them that are having the vast majority of the children and polluting the next generation. This is just one of the reasons why I wholeheartedly endorse the ideas of Professor Nyborg and hope his, and my, ideas will gain converts.