The joke is “this could have been prevented, if that guy became infertile, but unfortunately, modern medicine saved him”. That’s not jumping to codclusions, that’s the literal text of the movie.
Seriously, what’s wrong with your media literacy? It’s so obvious.
It kinda seems you are dismissing the possibility of nurture attributing to the equation at all, which in and of itself is a eugenics based argument.
Nice try. I’m simply interpreting the text of the movie.
The joke is “this could have been prevented, if that guy became infertile, but unfortunately, modern medicine saved him”. That’s not jumping to codclusions, that’s the literal text of the movie.
Yes…it is. Preventing a deadbeat dad from abandoning even more families to poverty is not saying that his genes are cursed or something.
Seriously, what’s wrong with your media literacy? It’s so obvious
Have you not ever heard of nature vs nurture? Never heard of tabula rassa? You do know that intellect isn’t determined by genes alone, correct?
Nice try. I’m sim’ly interpreting the text of the movie.
Yes, through the lens of eugenics…
The movie constantly focuses on genetics. It even ends with the naration that the (relatively smart) hero has a few smart kids and his dumb friend has a few dumb ones. The movie never interacts with *any socioeconomic factors, except for conflating poor people with dumb people.
Have you not ever heard of nature vs nurture?
The movie doesn’t get into that argument.
Never heard of tabula rassa?
What does “clean slate” have to do with this?
You do know that intellect isn’t determined by genes alone, correct?
Yes, that’s my point. The premise of the movie hinges on intelligence being mainly inherited.
The movie constantly focuses on genetics. It even ends with the naration that the (relatively smart) hero has a few smart kids and his dumb friend has a few dumb ones.
It doesn’t mention genes… In the clip you are talking about where he has smart kids, you can see both of the parents actively teaching their kids how to read. It then pans over to his friends who had a bunch of dumb kids and he’s teaching them to play with fireworks or something.
The movie never interacts with *any socioeconomic factors, except for conflating poor people with dumb people.
If it never interacts with socioeconomics how does it conflate poor people with dumb people?
The movie doesn’t get into that argument.
It’s the whole point of the movie…
What does “clean slate” have to do with this?
Lol, so no. You don’t understand.
Yes, that’s my point. The premise of the movie hinges on intelligence being mainly inherited.
How are you making that determination? How does one delineate between the two within the context of the movie?