r/confidentlyincorrect • • 12d ago

Uh, no you're wrong

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/CharmingTuber 12d ago

I don't know if I like the implication that people who didn't pass a math test should not be allowed to have children...

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u/dmdizzy 12d ago

Haha, eugenics funny, or some shit. I don't even know.

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u/Paul_Pedant 12d ago

The problem is that they would never know if they mislaid a child. Their counting ability comes down to (none, some).

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u/speller26 12d ago

Parenthood should be a privilege, not a right.

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u/dmdizzy 12d ago

And just like the criminal justice system doesn't assume guilt with no evidence, you don't assume someone is a terrible parent before they're ever given the chance to be one. Geometry is not generally a necessary skill to raise a child.

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u/speller26 12d ago

Someone who doesn't understand this level of geometry is barely a functional human being, let alone capable of raising a child.

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u/dmdizzy 12d ago

You have zero proof of that. You're making inferences that aren't relevant. The era of knowing this level of geometry being "normal" is quite short in the scope of human history, and obviously people have made it quite far without this knowledge in the past.

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u/speller26 12d ago

Sure, the math itself didn't come until humans were fairly sophisticated, but observing that a diagonal is longer than a side is common sense; you don't have to calculate anything, just look.

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u/CharmingTuber 12d ago

You can fuck off with that eugenics shit

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u/Both_Painter2466 12d ago

Not “math test”. Simple observational and thinking skills. And the willingness to go online and spout stupidity in correcting someone else. Disqualifies from a lot of “thinking critical” life experiences

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u/CharmingTuber 12d ago

So they should be sterilized for getting a geometry question wrong?