I don't pretend to understand the scientific origins of homosexuality. If it is indeed a genetic trait and not behavioral, then the gene will be filtered out if it is useless. This wouldn't mean that homosexuals deserve to die; they just wouldn't reproduce and the gene would disappear due to a lower birth rate rather than a higher death rate. But the fact that homosexuals continue to show up in each generation is evidence that this is probably not the case. On the other hand, if it is genetic, it may turn out that having some homosexuals is good for the well-being of the species as a whole, for example by countering overpopulation or perhaps homosexuals are statistically more likely to help others survive than heterosexuals. I can't really say since nobody knows for sure whether it's purely genetic and what effect it has on the gene pool.

Also note that people dying does not always mean natural selection is going on. Most of the time death is purely incidental, dependent on the circumstances in which they happen. Genocide is a good example of this; in no other species on earth do we find one sub-species try to eliminate another sub-species of the same species through violence. Genocide is not the result of inferior genes, but rather by deliberate human actions. There's nothing in the genes of Africans or Native Americans that prevented them from building those weapons; they just didn't happen to invent them. It's just a matter of circumstance that the Africans and Native Americans happened to be less technologically advanced and some Europeans convinced themselves that taking land and killing people of other races was desirable. It's similarly just a matter of circumstance and economics, not genetics, that Africans can afford less of the technology we have that hinders the spread of AIDS, and they happen to live where the disease started. Just like it's entirely circumstantial that the dinosaurs died out. There was nothing genetically inferior about them -- they thrived and dominated the planet for hundreds of millions of years -- but an asteroid from outer space quickly got rid of all the dinosaurs that didn't later evolve into birds. A lot of genetic change is random, and natural selection doesn't care about these random changes so long as they aren't negative changes.

Granted, I can't say whether the guy's death was the result of his genes giving him lower intelligence, but still in order for our species to develop our intelligence further, people who do have a genetic predisposition for lower intelligence need to be statistically less likely to reproduce, and that will happen whether we want it to or not, since we are animals and all animals undergo natural selection. I'm not advocating any form of social Darwinism -- Darwin himself warned against the application of his theories to society -- but rather purely Darwinism in a purely biological sense. And I don't think we should try to do anything to meddle with the process as humans, since that would no longer be "natural" selection, and only Nature knows for sure what genes are better than others in the big picture.
ermitonto Reviewed by ermitonto on . saw a guy die last night. i was leaving a place called the Ghostbar in downtown Chicago last when i saw this guy showing off on his Ducati bike.he was doing wheelies and all the other crazy stuff.well anyway he took off doing like 120mph and ran a red light and side swiped a car.he most have flown 200 feet before he stopped.he had compoung fractures in his right leg(the bone was sticking out of his pants) and all the skin on his face was gone.his head was pretty much completely turned around backwards.it was the Rating: 5