When watching a news special on how furniture can tip over and kill children, it's not polite to root for evolution, is it? Yet...

If little Billy's dumb enough to pull the tv over on himself, his stupid genes don't get passed on to the next generation. Everyone wins! I think coddling is half the reason we have so many dumb people. It's harder and harder to die from your own stupidity as time goes on and we put warning labels on more and more things, and have these specials on how to protect our precious children from any number of threats real and imagined.

Therefore more dumb people survive to breeding age each generation.

And because they're dumb, they often pop out massive numbers of children, each probably as intellectually incapable as the parent.

Dammit, I want to go back to the days of lead based paint and sharp toys that could choke a bitch. We survived those in childhood therefore we earned the right to pass on our genes.