A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment

Copyright by Bob Hurt 18 May 2012. All rights reserved

A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment

Copyright by Bob Hurt 18 May 2012. All rights reserved

Pesky Questions About Bozos

Does a society have the right to enact laws that effectively prevent members of the society from becoming a financial burden on the rest of society? endangering others in society? infecting innocent babies with a condition of lifelong obtuseness, brutishness, torpidity, and lack of intelligence? How and why has the USA changed in average intelligence since its beginning? Does any right of a society or civilization justify limiting the lower boundary of intelligence for parenting, such as through eugenics programs? This commentary addresses those questions and might provide insights for the sincere truth-seeker.

Law and Likelihood of Harming Others

Consider the legislative enactments regulating business practices, highway traffic, and human relations. Take for example seatbelt laws. Government requires people to buckle themselves in because: People often cause car crashes through negligence, incompetence, judgment error, or equipment failure; The violence of car crashes often maim or kill people in and out of the car; Such terrible loss causes families to suffer from reduced of earning power and enjoyment of life, and becoming a burden on society; Thus, modern civilizations prohibit human actions likely to endanger selves. others, and society.

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Qualities and Uses of Intelligence in Civilization

According to Wikipedia's IQ article, IQ has high heritability, intgelligence highly correlates to SAT scores, and people with IQ of 70 to 90 will likely engage in criminal behavior. Lynn and Vanhanen's books on IQ show the high correlation of national average IQ to gross national product. Therefore, means exist for society to determine the intelligence (g factor) and IQ of its members, and their corresponding value to society in terms of productivity, academic achievement, likely crimnality, burden on society, and the likelihood of low-intelligence parents procreating low-intelligence children. One must have an IQ of at least 85 to graduate from high school. US IQ distributions from actual tests reveal that at least 75 million of its people have IQ below 85 and even more cannot graduate from high school because of behavior and health problems associated with low intelligence. In the past 150 years the US has moved away from circumstances requiring massive numbers of low-intelligence people in its military and work forces. The military leaders of today desperately want recruits to have high school diplomas, and many manual labor jobs have moved to 3rd world countries as mechanization has modernized farms and factories. America needs people who can think, arrive at correct evaluations, and make correct decisions.

Hypocrisy of Ignoring the Gene Pool

Wouldnt it make sense to reduce the need for protective laws, prisons, and welfare infrastructures legislating to elevate the quality of the gene pool? I see the refusal to take such action as rank hypocrisy: We demand laws regulating seatbelt usage, road, motor vehicle, and building construction, highway speed, driver licenses, professions like plumbing, dentistry, medicine, and lawyering, and many other areas of life, on the basis of likelihood of resultant injury. But, We ignore the far higher likelihood of injury resulting from procreation by people of low intelligence. How much sense does that make? Hypocrisy aside, does it not seem unintelligent to refuse to discuss the reasons and A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment Page 3 of 7

means for reducing the percentage of grossly unintelligent people in future populations? Does it not seem even more stupid to refuse out of political correctness the notion of feeling embarrassed that the topic might offend those of grossly low intelligence? How about taking a poll of the stupid and ask them whether they enjoy feeling confused, frustrated, victimized, in trouble, and unable to learn, to figure things out, or to make prudent decisions? We might discover that they think they figure things out just fine, or that they hate the condition and would become smart if they could. Well, aside from that, it could go without saying that the highly intelligent would find some tasks boring that the lowly intelligent would find gratifying. Likewise, tasks that would challenge and gratify the intelligent would frustrate and anger the unintelligent. Many jobs exist that would suit the unintelligent. Thus, society's needs for the unintelligent still exist, such as domestic servitude, and simple tasks for which employers cannot afford machines. But such tasks have an economic value nonetheless, and it makes no economic sense to force an employer to pay more than the value of them.

Intelligence Strata (Classes) in America

The existence of 75 million relatively unintelligent people in America and the lack of available jobs for such people poses a serious problem that has resulted in America's prisons bursting at the seams. America has entered an age where it handles unintelligent people as follows: Puts them into the welfare system (they burden taxpayers); and Suffers crimes at their hands (they burden their victims and then the criminal justice system). Meanwhile, the very smart have advertised the American Dream's cornucopia of goods and services which the unwealthy obtain through debt. The unwealthy, unlike the unintelligent, do have intelligence, but either don't use it sufficiently to become wealthy, or actually don't have quite enough intelligence to become wealthy. That is, wealth does not generally happen by accident except when inherited by someone who very likely has high intelligence, the offspring of someone intelligent enough to garner wealth. A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment Page 4 of 7

So we have three major strata: The highly intelligent wealthy (high class) The somewhat intelligent or lazy unwealthy (middle class) The unintelligent poor (low class) In practice: The high class has managed to make the middle class into voluntary servants through glitzy ads and debt. Many of the high and middle class employ the low class for domestic servants. Some, but not that many, of the middle and high classes provide the low class with food, clothing, and shelter as part of the domestic servitude arrangement. The existence of many if not most of the low class have made the high and middle classes into their involuntary servants through crime, and taxation that pays for welfare abuse, health care, social workers, failed education efforts, and prisons. Even though taxes on the high class do pay for the upkeep of the low class, the high class never notices it as a burden because of other tax benefits and shelters, but those taxes impose a severe burden on the middle class.

The 13th Amendment and Reverse Slavery

This makes it apparent that the 13th Amendment did not actually abolish involuntary servitude. In reality, it appears that Americans, through their misguided sense of fairness, justice, and altruism, have destroyed the effectiveness of community charity programs for the feckless, handing those to government, and converted the middle class into slaves of the low class AND the high class. The upshot of this weird dilemma: Americans have upset the Law of the Survival of the Fittest with a system of legislated slavery of the middle class to the high class through usurious debt and to the low class through taxation. Victims of this system can only imagine that the high class engineered it intentionally. It does seem pretty slick when one ponders it. And that explanation clarifies the reason Government refuses to patrol the borders or impose some kind of check on the presently unrestrained procreation of children by unintelligent parents. A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment Page 5 of 7

This dilemma and its causes constitute a wholly immoral, unethical perversion of civilization's ideals. A society ought to engineer civilization for evolution toward some age of light and life, so to speak, where no crime, poverty, or war exists, and people can prosecute their ambitions without unduly burdening their fellows. That can never happen in an increasingly mechanized society in which 25% of the people haven't the cognitive ability to graduate from high school, and will certainly resort largely to crime or welfare abuse to get by. People of low intelligence make sense in a free society so long as others don't become systematic slaves to them. The unintelligent must have a means of becoming gainfully, self-sufficiently, and happily employed, or the wards of those willing to care for and obtain economic benefits from them. The unintelligent simply cannot become and remain wards of the state without an economic justification. Liberty, after all, comes at the expense of commensurate responsibility.

Reverse Slavery Justifies 13th Amendment Revision

The foregoing discussion sheds new light on the 13th Amendment. That Amendment should stand, but ONLY for people with sufficient IQ and ambition to operate selfsufficiently. So, Congress ought to modify it a bit to that end. Though many might feel loathe to admit it, involuntary servitude gave many benefits to many people, in spite of members of master and slave classes abusing one another.

Potential Benefits of 13th Amendment Revision

It provided sustenance, employment, and regulation for the servants and labor and other economic and personal benefits for the masters. Both sides benefited and to a large extent enjoyed the arrangement. And most of the servants, though slaves, escaped far worse conditions in their homelands. But, involuntary servitude had serious deficiencies: Incorrigible and violent slaves endangered the master and other slaves, and belonged in prison, not in a family or commercial enterprise. Abusive or negligent masters hurt or deprived their slaves. Many people became slaves who had the intelligence and raw ability become good, self-sufficient citizens, and should not have become involuntary servants.

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Today we have a reverse-slavery system where the high and middle classes, who can care for themselves and become good citizens, have become involuntary servants to the low class who cannot care for themselves or become good citizens. Society must reverse this situation while dramatically reducing the low class to a size that society actually needs for a smoothly functioning economy. That constitutes the supreme reason to outlaw production of bozos in America. Within 3 generations the averate intelligence of the nation will rise significantly, welfare will diminish so that neighborhoods can handle it without government interference, crime will drop dramatically, inner city ghettos will disappear, prison industries will shrink, and America will become monumentally more productive, more competitive than ever in the world economy. And, Americans with good sense should demand a change to the 13th Amendment to impose a system of involuntary servitude on able-bodied people who, by their nature, cannot or will not care for themselves without hurting or burdening others. Americans of good sense will otherwise remain slaves to the unintelligent of the land. And that just doesn't make much sense, does it?

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