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What are the taboo subjects? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Eugenics isn't a stupid idea on the face of it, but then you look at where our dog breeding has gone...

The good news is that humans are pretty adaptable already. The only things that really definitely could sink us are our inability to react to very abstract, gradual problems and our tribalism.

[–] Tehdastehdas 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without dog breeding, dogs would be still be wolves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's pretty unclear how much of the breeding 30000BC-1500AD was deliberate, and how much was just a kind of selection as people decided to eat their naughtiest dog when famine came. I'm talking about the highly-targeted breeding that brought us the pug unable to breath and German shepherds with back legs that stick out wrong because it looks cool.

Also, wolves are pretty good at what they do, I'm not sure it's fair to say they're worse than dogs somehow.

[–] Tehdastehdas 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Breeding unhealthy dogs could be called dysgenics. It's like breeding better slaves instead of better humans.

Wolves are good, evolution worked. Pet dogs are extra lives producing added value to themselves and their owners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, well what I'm saying is we'd do that to ourselves too; we're not to be trusted with our own biology. Not yet, at least.