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Before one starts implying that some children are hopeless--genetically determined stupid, irresponsible, selfish idiots--speak for yourself. Thank you.


P.S. Someone I know comes from a background of idiots. Other than his father's father, they are all drug addicts--alcohol, heroin, benzos, you name it. The aforementioned exception is a stupid, slow, ignorant, rich, arrogant, racist, selfish control freak. The guy's mother apparently didn't know how to use birth control. He grew up learning about how to cheat the welfare system, how it feels to be left alone at home--completely forgotten about--to starve for days at a time, and trying to predict who would next be jailed or hospitalized when.

When he was about 6 years old, he was taken to a testing center, the youngest of a group of "gifted" children in the school district. No one told him what his IQ score was (or much of anything else) at that age; what he did know that he finished first, and he answered everything correctly except for one (he knew the correct answer but made a mistake marking it). His parents refused to allow him to skip grades. In high school, he was administered a second IQ test. He scored off the chart (180+). He wasn't much interested in these stupid numbers, so he declined a second test to pinpoint his IQ. He accepted a full scholarship to UIUC.

Please don't encourage his relatives--with such superior genes and potential--to breed more so the world may avoid an Idiocracy future. Just don't.