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Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:33 am
by Libertarian666
Jack Jones wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
Actually, in a few thousand years of modern medicine, the baby's heads might be even bigger. Assuming that allows them to be more intelligent and therefore survive better given intervention to get them out alive via a C-section, evolution doesn't care that they need to be surgically extracted...
Seems to me that the intelligent tend to have less babies though.
Yes, unfortunately. We may end up with "Idiocracy" after all... although that is actually way too optimistic.
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:46 am
by Xan
Jack Jones wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
Actually, in a few thousand years of modern medicine, the baby's heads might be even bigger. Assuming that allows them to be more intelligent and therefore survive better given intervention to get them out alive via a C-section, evolution doesn't care that they need to be surgically extracted...
Seems to me that the intelligent tend to have less babies though.
That's "fewer".
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:04 am
by Jack Jones
Xan wrote:
Jack Jones wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
Actually, in a few thousand years of modern medicine, the baby's heads might be even bigger. Assuming that allows them to be more intelligent and therefore survive better given intervention to get them out alive via a C-section, evolution doesn't care that they need to be surgically extracted...
Seems to me that the intelligent tend to have less babies though.
That's "fewer".
Thank you for pointing out that my existence proves my point.
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:59 pm
by dragoncar
Jack Jones wrote:
Xan wrote:
Jack Jones wrote:
Seems to me that the intelligent tend to have less babies though.
That's "fewer".
Thank you for pointing out that my existence proves my point.
I'm sure you will reproduce prodigiously
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:12 pm
by barrett
Libertarian666 wrote:
This is a major reason for "medical tourism" to places like Malaysia and the Philippines (IIRC); there, you can get a private room with hot and cold running nurses for under (in some cases well under) $100/day.
Just catching up on this thread. The bolded part is the funniest typo I have read in a while. I'm off to Southeast Asia!
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:12 pm
by Libertarian666
barrett wrote:
Libertarian666 wrote:
This is a major reason for "medical tourism" to places like Malaysia and the Philippines (IIRC); there, you can get a private room with hot and cold running nurses for under (in some cases well under) $100/day.
Just catching up on this thread. The bolded part is the funniest typo I have read in a while. I'm off to Southeast Asia!
That's not a typo; it's a quotation from a book, I think a Heinlein one.