Ok

 

Right...

 

To your bedrooms, everyone. Let's breed

 

I would take into account that many people are infertile. Not everybody who wants child will have one. This is a sad truth - I have many patients who go for IVF or some other form of assisted reproduction and not all of them succeed.
Besides not everybody have to have kids, it's a personal choice. These little pests are very hard work, 24/7. I have 3 kids and sometimes it is not funny at all.
Also many people should not have kids, they abuse them, treat like garbage and sometimes murder. It is better when some people don't have kids.

 

What if you die before you have a chance to breed? Also I've seen parent who deserve this award because of their sheer stupidity.

 

Ok, so are you creating a website to leverage this information? What are some ways you could make an interface that would make you the $20k/year you want?

 

#landfill

 

If you people start breeding in my water cooler, I'm outta here.

 

My apologies, I was trying to show that you can make a fastlane business out of anything.

 

Hey wait a minute. With technology you can freeze eggs or sperm which can produce offspring at some point in the future (i.e. after your death) so I would not agree with this. Anyone in this business BTW?

Christopher Walken for example might have been a closet obsessive sperm donor his entire life who might, at some future date, yield an entire race of Christopher Walkens.

And lets not even bring up Cloning.

 

I think your understanding of Darwinism is lacking, to say the least. The theory of natural selection refers to the propagation of positive traits and the removal of negative traits of a species as a whole. It has nothing to do with an individual organism's procreation.
Plus, everyone you listed has some (arguably) very positive traits. Therefore, our species as a whole is slightly weaker by the removal of their positive traits from the gene pool. So I don't see how very desirable people not passing along their genes is considered a "winner".

 

Shame about patrick swayze. He was a talented actor, and by all accounts a decent man.

 

Personally, I can now sleep better at night. Thanks @sthubbar for this thought provoking thread.

 

This makes absolutely no sense to me. You are saying that the people on this list won the Darwinism award by not breeding, implying that should not further their DNA due to survival of the fittest or smartest.

How does lack of procreation win the award? If anything it’s the opposite of Darwinism when good genes aren’t passed along.

 

This is the opposite of Darwinism. This is more the point of Idiocracy.

"Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd. It began to simply reward those that reproduce the most..."

Opening scene included below:

I don't see how natural selection has "nothing to do with an individual organism's procreation."

That's just silly. The theory boils down to "individuals best adapted to their environments are more likely to survive and reproduce."

 

I sure hope this isn't the first thread Elon Musk clicks on when he visits the forum...

 

I could care less about which celebrities ended up having kids or not. Same goes for the cars they drive or what they ate for lunch today.