"Have you, xxx, ever considered that in what we do, we are uh... anti-darwinists? By that I mean we are artificially selecting who gets to live and hence go on to pollute the gene pool with their genes... And it's not just the genes, for you have to remember, besides nature, nurture is vitally important as well... so they go on to reproduce and not just pass on their potentially tainted genes but their definitely decidedly anti-social way of life... Why do we persist in doing what we do? Why do we keep saving their butts?

Think about your typical heroin DOA OD... On his 5th or 6th time he finally tops himself at age 20 but not before producing 5 kids with 3 or 4 other heroin addicts... What sort of chance do these kids have? What will they do? The same?

More disturbingly, how many productive citizens do you know out there who have 5 kids?

And what then, becomes of Society...."

Erdoc can understand where this fellow is coming from... We know we can and have done influence the evolution of other species... Cows were not always cows as we know them today. We artificially selected them. As with dogs... rabbits, cats.... and even staphyloccoci... and VRE... And God knows, how many other microbes...

BUT, this is a question that is highly inflammatory and borders perhaps on the realm of eugenics to put it politely. But you got to wonder sometimes... And sometimes your wondering/wandering takes you into places you really don't want to go into....