[Branaddar]

All conversations should lead to Mass Effect and away from politics. As a Canadian, I em entitled to my snooty eye-rolling whenever American politics comes up.

But in all seriousness, we are definitely weakening ourselves as a species. Fertility treatments, cures for genetic diseases, etc all weaken our gene pool by allowing bad genes to propogate. I know that sounds sociopathic of me, and I mean no disrespect to people that have had to deal with these conditions.

I'm just saying that it's not about "survival of the fittest" with our species, it's about "survival of the richest." How much will those millions of dollars help you if society collapses and we have to rely on our base skills to go back to a hunt/gather society? Whatever the cause, at some point human civilization will crumble to some basic level.

I'm guessing if it was a sudden thing instead of drawn out over generations, a lot of people would die off fast. You see a lot of post-apocalyptic games and movies and such, but they always seem to be within 100 years of the apocalypse or so.

I'd be curious to see what happens to us 500 years after one, when we've scavenged all their is to scavenge and shot all the bullets and eaten all the canned foods.

Would it be a reboot of the human race? There's no way we could pass on all the technological knowledge we've gained to our great great great great grandchildren. So much would get lost, it would become like magic to them.

I think the only real modern skills we would pass on would be some construction, farming and basic medical knowledge. Why waste time teaching children quantum physics and particle theories and all that? We'd teach them what they needed to survive.

I forget if I had a point in any of this... I like to ramble :P