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Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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I'm going to take a risk and leave here the shortcut for Wikipedia's page on eugenics.
Next I'm going to add that a person acting/navigating their life based off stupidity or delusion incur in an incresead probability of, by their own actions and choices, remove themselves from the population either by isolation, self endangerment or any behavior that for some reasons makes them non eligible as viable partners.
This isn't about a group being labelled and targeted by another for forceful removal of society.
I think it is wildly inappropriate to try to tell someone that they shouldn't have kids. Intelligence or looks are not something you can measure are you will always favor people who are like you.
Also the entire idea of Eugenics is complete BS. Trying to bread a human population has no real impact as you would need to commit genocide. Humans are not nearly as simple as a pea plants.
When I was still on reddit, I would occasionally come across a comment I liked.
It could be something as simple as "The (local sports team) is going to (do something sports related) this year!"
And I, without context, would reply "Please have babies."
Sometimes massive upvotes. Sometimes massive downvotes.
NEVER made any sense. And thats fine.
People with currently-known genes for conditions like Tay-Sachs (recessive gene, if a baby gets two copies they are a normal baby the first several months, then get progressive nerve damage until they die around three), or Huntington's (relevant gene is dominant, but condition manifests in adulthood) may choose not to have kids, or use technology like PGD to select embryos without the relevant genes, or in the case of recessive genes may refuse as spouse any potential partner that also has the gene.
Those are complicated decisions, and nothing should be forced, but it's important to be able to talk about. There shouldn't be a taboo on talking about how parents' decisions affect their children, even if those decisions involve genetics.