Why can't we sterilize people with less than an IQ of 110?

Question

It would be amazing if it could happen.

Answer 1

awwsomm kwestion! wait, wat? oh ya, grate kwestion!!

Answer 2

1. IQ tests are good at testing people's ability to take tests and things closely related, like much academic work. However, as pointed out by many others, it cannot predict whether someone will contribute to society. In fact, the more intelligent someone is the more dangerous they could be to society.

2. IQ is heritable but not completely. That is, if the goal is to eliminate stupid people from the gene pool, it would not be fully accomplished by this procedure. Some low-IQ people would be born, especially when you factor in birth defects, substance abuse, accidents, etc. Also, some very intelligent people had low-IQ parents. So your proposal would eliminate some geniuses and leave behind some idiots.

3. The law would set a precedent that human rights are dependent on IQ. Why not, then, execute those with IQs under 80, sterilize those with IQs under 110, only allow to vote or hold public office those with IQs over 130, etc? But then, these are arbitrary benchmarks. 100 is by definition average. If we eliminate all the below average, our average simply goes up. So, we would recenter the IQ. So even if your IQ (I am being generous) were 120, you would now be in the "below average" category, and thus, in danger of being sterilized or executed.

4. As someone else pointed out, IQ is variable up until adulthood (and even after, somewhat). What if someone is 10 and has an IQ of 100? Do you give them a chance to retake the test at 18? What if it is then 109? Do they get to try again? Or are they immediately sterilized? And how fair is it to sterilize someone who scores 109 and not someone who scores 110? What if someone gets brain damage as an adult? Clearly, that wouldn't effect their children's IQ, so what is the point of sterilization?

5. And think about the generation gap if it was implemented. The first post-sterilization generation would be substantially smarter, even at 18, than the older generations. Would they wait their turn, working at McDonalds or the Gap, working for people stupider than them? Or would they decide that they shouldn't pay for the medical care of a bunch of old, senile, stupid people such as yourself in the year 2050. Perhaps they would enact a law that would execute everyone with an IQ below 150 if they are over age 65, saving on Social Security and Medicare.

6. And why just intelligence? Why not physical strength, speed, beauty, agility, weight, etc? Why not sterilize those who are color-blind, short-sighted, overweight, underweight, allergic to peanuts, brunettes, clumsy, etc, etc? As long as we are purifying the human race, after all...
Then we will truly have a Master Race!

Answer 3

IQ testing is flawed and rather subjective. It has been pretty much agreed that there is no absolute way to truly and fairly test for overall intelligence. Besides,you wouldn't score the same each time you took the test. There are many factors involved such as mood, testing environment, physical health, mental health, diet, and so on. So let's say you're having a bad day when you have been ordered by the government to take the test. You're just mom died, you have cramps, your blood sugar is low and your not focused from being depressed and you score a 90. How would feel if you were suddenly whisked away and tossed on a operating table to be sterilized?
Hitler wanted to pretty much do the same thing. There are also people today who want to "clean" out the gene pool through Eugenics which uses what you are talking about as one of the foundations "fer gittin' rid o' stoopid folks."
You ever seen the movie 'Gattica'? That's what they talk about. Where do we draw the line on what is acceptable or unacceptable as far as human flaws in society? Eventually, everyone becomes a target for some reason or another. Who truly has the right or the power to decide? You? Nope. Me? Not a chance.
No, it wouldn't be amazing. It would be Hell on Earth.

Answer 4

You do realize that the average IQ is between 90-120 ... so by sterilizing people with an IQ under 110 you will be steralizing most of the human population.

Answer 5

IQ is nothing more than an attempt to gauge intelligence. People with modicum of intelligence and a wide range of interest could get impressively high IQ results. On the other hand "Savant idiots" would score maybe a 10 or less specially when the test is outside his area of expertise. We would in effect artificially deprive ourselves of natures gift, and create a world of "geniuses" who I suspect maybe unable to contribute anything new. Have you ever thought how Edison or Hannival would have fared in an IQ test...I am afraid they'd fail miserably.

On a sidebar: Did Nazi Germany tried this super race scheme before? And used some sort of lineage and IQ test to determine who should be masters and slaves, or who dies and lives?

On the other hand, we do have this looming problem of overpopulation... so keep thinking dear, you might save us yet from ourselves.

Answer 6

you are a sick self rightous bigot. you are talking about something you obviously haven't put much thought into but why don't you move to China were governmental sterilization has occurred, only male children were wanted. if the child was female the pregnancy was aborted. the couple were given 2 chances for a male. after that no more children. we could have gotten lucky and you could have been Chinese. what about mentally challenged people, some of the most innocent and loving people in the world? you have more of a right to be here than they do? you stupid bi**h.

Answer 7

I.Q. doesn't designate the ability to love others. Apparently, Ted Bundy had a very high I.Q. and he made the admirable contribution of being an extremely adept serial killer. Good use of one's brains, would you say? Not only should people like him be sterilized, they should also be castrated! But one's level of I.Q. ensures nothing. It's how that I.Q. is used! A lot of people with great I.Q.'s can score very low when it comes to matters of common sense and decency. You have a wrong misconception that I.Q. guarantees some sort of reliable barometer of human assessment. There are hundreds of variables that interplay and influence the functioning of a human being. I'd rather trust a "Forrest Gump" type to father children than I would a Ted Bundy!

Answer 8

Because very few people actually have that high of an IQ, and IQ has nothing to do with actual intelligence, leadership, survival capabilities, or interacting with people/compassion/philosophy/morality.

Besides, there is no guarantee that the smart people would breed smart kids; the more people you have going at it, the greater chance there is of smart people being born and making it to adulthood. Do you think that Einstein's parents were as smart as him?

Obviously you haven't thought this through, because by your own logic you'd be sterilised, and that's not something people generally care to undergo.

Answer 9

Good on you for having a high I.Q., with low decent respect towards others. You must be proud. With great power comes great responsibility... If I were a boss to hire you for a job, you'd be pushing the mail cart for a career. I wouldn't want you to be coming close to the corporate ladder for fear of how you would treat the subordinates. It is not just what you have, but how you use it. Keep in mind there is always a bigger fish, so what about if the bigger fish were to say everyone within your bracket gets the snip? Your not so hot to trot any more. Where do we draw the line? Are you smart enough to answer that?
CyberNara

Answer 10

i have known a few people with high iq's that lack absalutely zero commonsense and obviously ... zero tolerance.
A high IQ i see counts for nothing unless you plan to become a rocket scientist and in the real world ... there aren't alot of rocket scientists the majority of people are happy with who they are and how "smart" they are, true intelligence cannot be measured, if you have a high IQ then great good for you, personally if all you "high numbered intelligent"types are this narrowminded then perhaps those with 110 +iq's should be sterilised to stop such critical and snobbish attitudes

Answer 11

Sweetheart, I have no idea what your IQ is, but your sensitivity IQ is below par. So then, I guess we have to take out your ovaries? Really know, must you act like such a supercilious cad? (Need the dictionary for that one, don't you?) Ask real questions that people have to bust a gut (or a nerve) to answer.