{"id":48223,"date":"2023-12-12T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48223"},"modified":"2023-12-12T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T02:23:32","slug":"48223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48223","title":{"rendered":"Time To Ban Fossil Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Time_To_Ban_Fossil_Fools-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Time To Ban Fossil Fools\" width=\"776\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Time_To_Ban_Fossil_Fools-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Time_To_Ban_Fossil_Fools.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eugenicists, all.<\/p>\n<p>Given that intelligence is the ability to solve problems and insanity is the urge to destroy, I consider it a moral duty for all those who cannot come up with a\u00a0 saner, more intelligent solution than &#8220;everyone else has to die&#8221; to set an example for the rest of us and remove themselves from the gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>This will have the benefit of removing a source of insanity and of raising the average IQ of those left in the gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>Without their destructive influence we can maybe make more progress towards eradicating war, crime and insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenicists, all. Given that intelligence is the ability to solve problems and insanity is the urge to destroy, I consider it a moral duty for all those who cannot come up with a\u00a0 saner, more intelligent solution than &#8220;everyone else has to die&#8221; to set an example for the rest of us and remove themselves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time To Ban Fossil Fools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48226,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223\/revisions\/48226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}