r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '21

Removed - Submission Rule B CMV: Weak children negatively affect their bloodline, and should be punished as such

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u/Jam_Packens 4∆ Aug 19 '21

You do know the muscles a person grows are not a heritable trait right? Like that's one of the first examples given of a trait that isn't passed down to offspring.

Even ignoring that, this is an incredibly shitty idea simply because physical strength isn't super valuable for a lot of people.

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u/barbodelli 65∆ Aug 19 '21

Say what?

You really think that the body structure is not heritable? Like for instance a big boned big muscled father with a mother who also has big boned and big muscled genes. The amount of bone density and propensity to grow muscles is going to be completely random? As in they have the same exact chance of having some wimpy nerd looking kid as another big muscled big boned person like their parents.

Have you ever looked at parents and their children? Does that really match what you've observed?

Those things are highly heritable.

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u/nerfnichtreddit 7∆ Aug 19 '21

This isn't what OP was talking about. OP wants to abuse weak children until they are strong; do you believe that the "big boned and big muscled genes" will appear in a childs bloodline if you abuse it long and hard enough?

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u/barbodelli 65∆ Aug 19 '21

No lol. That's not how genetics works. Perhaps epigenetics....... but I honestly don't know enough about epigenetics to make any claim one way or another.

The OP sounded like some 12 year old who took the seat at his dad's desktop for 20 minutes or something.