do you think that really really ugly/stupid people should consider not procreating?

How about people too stupid to think things through before they say / type them?

There was a report I read about last week on the BBC about how some scientists think that as we become more picky in the future, the human race will split into two 'species' - an elite race of tall, strong people with all the hallmarks of fertility, and an underclass of small ugly hobbits. I think the implication is that the the underclass would be poor. And probably live in the depths of the city where the sunlight doesn't reach because of the 3km high skyscrapers where the upper class have their penthouses. I also hope there are dinosaur robots.

Is it really that unbelievable? How often do you see a stunningly attractive person with a very plain or repulsive partner?

Yes, what we need is an ideology in which "really really stupid" people are of equal financial worth to the intelligent!

We need structural equality of opportunity, imv, but thanks for the strawman.

Oswy.

Being ugly hardly matters.

You have to ask yourself this - what gives society the right to decide that the quality of life of a child that isn't even born yet (!) is so poor that it is justifiable to deny the parents the right to have children? It's neither in the child's interests (since paradoxically if you claim that denying the right of the parents to have children is in the child's interests, the child won't exist to have interests) nor in the parents interests to deny them the right to have children.

Any chance of a picture, by-torslayshisfoe?

I'm all for an eqaulity of oppertunity, but that insinuates there is no equality of outcome - else you'd cut straight to the chase, oppertunity be damned. Given this, presumably you prescribe to the belief of meritocracy - in which case "really really stupid" people will be of low, low financial worth.