Was secluding the brightest people in society and preventing them from procreating the dumbest thing Europeans have done in history?
Was secluding the brightest people in society and preventing them from procreating the dumbest thing Europeans have...
Julian Ross
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Josiah Williams
Europe would have had a DRASTICALLY higher average IQ if they let the educated priest have chief breeding rights
Blake Butler
>living for the betterment of society
Ew.
>living for God alone
Yes, please.
Humans don't deserve the progeny of intelligent people.
Christian Barnes
>Higher IQ
>Educated priests
This implies that their intelligence was due to environmental factors, allowing them to have children would have made no improvement to the average intelligence of the population.
Nicholas Allen
>goes against his natural instincts, if not obligations, because of an abstract idea
>brightest
Literally on par with homosexuals
Ryder Robinson
No it doesn't dimfuck, it implies the incredibly obvious fact that intelligent people seek out education, and in the middle ages that generally meant the church.
Colton Walker
>preventing them from procreating
Oh ho ho. You don't think the clergy really followed the celibacy rules back in the middle ages, do you?
The Church was practically running a eugenics program with the unwanted sons and daughters of the nobility.
Colton Ross
>homos
>going against their natural instincts
Brayden Myers
Yes?
Jace Phillips
>yes
Logan Jenkins
I am by degrees convinced that the average IQ of Veeky Forums is below either /co/ or Veeky Forums
Daniel Gutierrez
>you will never live a comfy life with your holy frat bros brewing beer and fugging nuns
Jaxson Morgan
I'm confused, are you telling me that not procreating isn't going against your instincts?
Josiah Harris
They were smart because they were celibate.
Medieval western europe was essentially a caste system.
Kayden Cooper
>Gays are doing just what they were born to do!!!
Yeah sure. Hey by the way I was born to say you are fucking retarded.
Dominic Gonzalez
Your instinct is to grind your dick until white stuff comes out and you feel nice. Homos are just grinding in the wrong hole but they sure are doing what feels instinctive to them.
Blake Morgan
No, not really OP, because smart and successful people rarely have children anyway.
Colton Ward
The clergy was made out of the youngest sons, lower class ending as monks and higher class as priests or bishops. They were not joining the monestary to pursue academic ambitions but rather placed their by their parents in the hope that their family would have ties with the church and their offspring would be fed.
Ian Morales
>Europe would have had a DRASTICALLY higher average IQ if they let the educated priest have chief breeding rights
Priests
Educated
Michael Diaz
No they essentially secluded themselves and focused on innovations in all manner of fields propelling Europe forward throughout the Middle Ages.
Connor Bailey
Is rabbis having tons of kids not the main theory why ashkenazi have higher IQ than europeans?
Gabriel Cruz
Pre-moderns didn't value IQ above everything else like you dipshit.
Samuel Nelson
High Jewish IQ is mostly a result of extreme selective pressure from thousands of years of persecution.
All the dumb Jews got pogrom'd to death centuries ago or gassed by the Nazis, leaving only smart ones.
Robert Gomez
I think they drunk lots of booze too.
Christopher Young
>seriously thinking monks were smarter than lordlings and merchants
There was a fuckton of monks, so dont you come with the couple of exceptions.
If anything they wasted intelligent individuals on theological bullshit. At least worldly power often went with it.
Charles Smith
Chinese Buddhist monks can't get married, yet you don't make similar claims. Most people had brothers and sisters, what you are saying is 100% bullshit.
William Miller
some churches/monasteries ran brothels to make money
do you really think monks and other religious figures didn't breed, even if on the sly?
they were the mediaeval equivalent of the 'can't marry, will marry' roman legionaries
Caleb Green
>some churches/monasteries ran brothels to make money
How many, and which ones?
Ryder Murphy
>Education in the middle ages was something you could simply seek out
Retard
Andrew Reed
Your instincts are very much to do that in a woman's vagina.
Justin Lee
It was, even if learning institutions didn't work that way. Anyone could go to the local educated village elder or whatever and seek education on things.
William Moore
Life isn't a video game user
Carter Kelly
It allowed them to be productive for the greater good and not waste their life taking care of a fat wife and retarded children.
Mason Reed
Life isn't the rigid stereotype you portray it was either.