Court bans man with low IQ from having sex

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by MaddogK

You totally left out the part about competing for the available mates in order to reproduce. Natural selection left unhampered by civilization would've eliminated the least able to thrive in favor of their competition, those fit to survive.

You simply can't have natural selection in a society that medically can save almost anyone with any malady (at any cost), because they will eventually add to the gene pool.

...of course they now have artificial means for those who fail to 'naturally' mate.

I was saving that for the inevitable counterpoint. I never show my entire hand.

You're right; this man would have no chance at survival, let alone reproduction, in a 'natural' environment. My point would have been that it is only civilization that saves him. As such, what is civil is not always the best for the species. It is why so many questions are raised of reproduction by the mentally disabled. Of course, I have no intention of saying yay or nay to that issue, as I have no real answers to give.