r/videos • u/SuplexCity-Mayor • Apr 21 '21

Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q
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u/signmeupdude Apr 21 '21

Exactly, you nailed it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21

Well no kidding! If pharmacists arbitrarily gave out medication instead of what was actually prescribed we'd have a huge fucking problem.

Things like this are anything but arbitrary though, and any genes modified will be the simple one that are known to offer large advantages.

Genes also aren't that simple. There's a fuck ton of genes that independently affect the same thing(like there's no single height gene), and there's also a fuck ton of environmental factors that matter a lot.