"Stupid" is a Lifestyle Choice. Sexual Orientation is Not. nt

[IdaBriggs]

[xchrom]

1. Allies don't make what are tantamount to bigoted remarks about you. Nt

[seabeyond]

2. to be fair, i used lifestyle choice in argument pro gay until du educated me and showed me my stupid

i am not one that has ever see gay as a choice, but who a person is. never saw it as a choice. yet i used that term a while ago. then du educated in an obvious awareness. that happens. i dont know the situation with the aide, just sharing.

[JohnnyLib2]

8. Good point, and you are brave for sharing.

[Ian David]

3. Stupid is by birth. Ignorant is a lifestyle choice. Also, religion is a lifestyle choice. n/t

[BootinUp]

4. agreed nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Big debate on that because it touches Eugenics

The Biology of Stupidity: Genetics, Eugenics and Mental Deficiency in the Inter-War Years

The British Journal for the History of Science




http://www.jstor.org/pss/4026901

Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer

But in a documentary series to be screened in the UK on Channel 4, Watson says that low intelligence is an inherited disorder and that molecular biologists have a duty to devise gene therapies or screening tests to tackle stupidity.

"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," says Watson, now president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York. "The lower 10 per cent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it? A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't. So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent."

Watson, no stranger to controversy, also suggests that genes influencing beauty could also be engineered. "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great."
Complex traits

But other scientists have questioned both the ethics and plausibility of his suggestions.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3451-stupidity-should-be-cured-says-dna-discoverer.html


I do agree however that most stupidity can be traced to genetic
diseases and religion and Ignorance can not be.

[Ian David]

7. Religion is a choice, but extreme religiosity is a genetic disorder.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=extreme+religiosity+genetic&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS334US334&ie=UTF-8

[defendandprotect]

5. Bigotry and ignorance are a "lifestyle choice" --