Should attractive people get incentives for breeding?

Question

There's countries with low birth rates that give out incentives for people to start having more kids; do you think they should give even more incentives to attractive people to breed, in order to reduce the amount of unattractive people in the world?
And do you also think they should penalize those unattractive couples that reproduce?
Couples where one of the parents is considered attractive while the other isn't, won't get any benefits out of it.

For those wondering how could we determine who's attractive and who's not since beauty is subjective, well, we could use a computer to determine who's attractive and who's not. There's certain traits that are considered attractive by most people. We could input all this data in a computer and let it decide.

CountessSarah · Accepted Answer

"we could use a computer to determine who's attractive and who's not."
What a hilariously shallow attempt to answer the question of who/how this would be decided.
A program would still be using algorithms set by it's programmers - the decision would ultimately still be being made by people. You can't just build a robot with a cock and expect it to come up with it's own parameters for hot and not.

Amusing robo-boners aside, I actually don't see numbers of attractive or unattractive people as a problem.
In fact, if in 100 years time, everyone is considered hot by todays standards, all you'll have done is shifted the bar upwards. I don't rate peoples appearance because I'm not an asshole, but the scale of 1-to-10 is relevant to the sort of people who exist today. In a world of 8-to-10s, the 8s would be the new 1s. The paradigm of beauty is entirely relative to the world it exists in.

This idea also seems to forget that genetic defects or another anomalies are not caused by having ugly parents, and even if only the hottest people reproduced, you'd still have unattractive people growing up.

vishna · Accepted Answer

Attractive people have more kids anyway. They are more likely to have girls, and thus more likely for their genes to pass down (bc there's a surplus of men wanting to pass genes than women looking for strong, capable males)
www.psychologytoday.com/.../beautiful-people-have-more-daughters
And in a study done by the university of St. Andrews, prettier women want more kids.
www.businessinsider.com/study-women-with-prettier-faces-want-more-children-2011-10

So, no, they already have a disposition to breed more and they have means to increase 'pretty' genes.

And you know my mama had two girls B-)

peachblossomluck · Accepted Answer

This concept is called Eugenics and it's a Nazi ideology. That's why no one will agree to it. It's a good idea in theory but if you take away all of the ugly people, the good looking people may turn on each other. With all of these superior people running around that's too much dominance which leads to bloodshed.

giant_ant · Accepted Answer

Oh my God, yes! That's the most sensible proposal I've read in a long time. They should definitely penalize unattractive people that breed. Only ugly people would be against that and you don't want them to decide on this anyway. If such a law is proposed, only attractive people should be allowed to vote on this.

And since attractive people have far higher value in such a society, they should get special privileges: Special police protection at their request (you don't want them to get killed, do you?), an unlimited amount of free cash, immunity for any crimes committed against ugly people and the legal right to enslave any ugly person and seize their property. That would ultimately ensure that attractive people are far more likely to breed as they can fuck without consequences and have everything handed to them.

Ugly people, down vote all you want, I don't care. :D :D

hellionthesagereborn · Accepted Answer

No, first and foremost because attraction is based upon experience and circumstances (poorer men gravitate to thicker wider hipped women and richer to thinner) plus I don't care if a guy performing surgery on me is pretty, I care that he can do the fucking job. I world full of attractive people is not a world full of capable people, there are plenty of men and women who are fun to look at but are completely worthless in all other respects, that doesn't keep a society going. Plus if every one is attractive by definition every one is average so it couldn't even work anyway.

lizziepooh03 · Answer

I do not think we should dictate who breeds or not... but if we were going to and if we were going to give incentives then I suggest we focus on independent thinkers.

That is the thing that our society needs the most and should be the thing we encourage for breeding if we were to encourage a trait through breeding.

My vote is not attractiveness but independent thinkers. They are going to be the ones that save us from ourselves, I believe...

Cloudy25 · Answer

You know, it could actually make a really good movie if you think about it. Then add a little sci fi or something into it

aicarg · Answer

But what counts as "unattracive" 😐 I've been called from both ends of the spectrum? I believe people should just start "mixing" and seeing the "hybrids" we come up with 😝 otherwise the population will all go beige 🤣

davidshaw · Answer

Sure, if you believe in the 'Aryan breeding camp' type models. 'Attractiveness' is impossible to define anyway, even harder to define than race. Every culture, even subculture to a degree, views attractiveness differently.
Also this seems dangerously like eugenics tbh. Besides, if you wanted a larger population in your country in general, you don't need to segregate the community. The more people breeding, the better in this policy.

estoydorado1 · Answer

I think they should incentivize healthy people to procreate. Looks will come and go at certain parts of our lives and eventually fade. Some people don't peak until their 30's for example and some attractive people may not look so attractive if they're impoverished and unable to feed and clothe themselves properly. And lastly just because someone has a pretty face doesn't mean they don't have a high risk for passing along some debilitating birth defects.

Curmudgeon · Answer

An old Twilight Zone episode comes to mind: Modern Update:

Peachman · Answer

Not this but doing it so that only healthy people are given a benefit for producing over 1 child for example.

Healthy and fit people (an exception could be geniuses eg Micheal from prison break level) = They get a bonus for producing 2 or more children that could be eg schooling discounts

Unhealthy or some BAD hereditary diseases (that are very high percentage) = are not penalized for having under 1 child but are penalized for having over 2

bubblesugarsocks · Answer

I think it's very nice of you that you care so much about the gene pool that you want to "improve" it on a large scale like that. You're a good person, asker.

vonasaurus · Answer

this is ridiculous; you want to do that, go play a sims game lol.

Iraqveteran666 · Answer

Serious financial assistance, housing, grants, free Medicare, 1 parent paid to stay home, tax relief, baby bonus scheme, free childcare. Any are all of these would help.

OverCaffeinated93 · Answer

Penalize people with low IQ and low levels of education for breeding. And feminists. And US citizens already ALL have incentives for breeding. It's called WIC, food stamps, section 8 and welfare.

ladsin · Answer

D screw that, the attractive reproduce just fine. Give incentives to the intelligent.

Z-100 · Answer

Everyone should stop breeding, the world is already too overpopulated. Filthy natalists.

ChocoLada · Answer

I like that concept, good idea Ale 😉👍 Ready for breeding? 😈

bmwonstilts · Answer

No matter the amount of data entered, it would go through a set of parameters in the programming. All of that has to be done by a person. In top of that, if there were more attractive people in the world, there would still be less attractive people. There's always a scale for things like that.

Daynada · Answer

Not all attractive people have good looking kids. Sorry

DamnSam · Answer

no because what counts as hot, who made that decision, and uh yes, you remember adolf hitler, this was his ideologie... and I swear you want not a guy like me in charge (only big chicks and Adonis males xD)

Unit1 · Answer

Maybe just let people breed with who they love?

But yes, we are overpopulated. I don't see a possible solution to this problem. It only keeps snowballing.
World War 3 may be just around the corner however.

Likes2drive · Answer

Sounds like they would be trying to create a genetically superior race

Bandit74 · Answer

Well people who are ugly are less likely to mate anyways.

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