It is my view that genetic fitness for survival has become almost irrelevant in places like the North America, Europe, and Japan. There is a supportable hypothesis that humans in those cosseted realms are, on average, becoming less intelligent. The less-intelligent portions of the populace are breeding faster than the more-intelligent portions.

The rise of technology and the “social safety net” (state-enforced pseudo-empathy) have enabled the survival and reproduction of traits that would have dwindled in times past. Evolution — in the absence of challenges that ensure survival of the fittest — seems to have resulted in devolution. The evidence is all around us.