It is justified to sterilize citizens with below average intelligence

I would like to mention to my opponent that he/she please do an LD style format becase that is what this debate is. "Those at the lower levels of society - those who are not able to manage even the simplest tasks and often not their children - should be dissuaded from having children. "Professor Helmuth Nyborg Resolved: It is justified to sterilize citizens with below average intelligence. V: Societal Welfare-The well being of a society in matters of health, safety, order, and economics VC: Utilitarianism-The greatest good for the greatest amount of people Definitions Justified-To demonstrate or prove to be just, right, or valid Sterilize-To deprive (a person or an animal) of the ability to produce offspring, as by removing the reproductive organs. Citizen-an inhabitant of a city or town Intelligence- the ability to understand, learn, and think things out quickly Before I go into my contentions I would like to offer an observation of the resolution. When talking of below average intelligence we need something to base it off, to measure it by. The only thing we can do so is by the IQ test. According to the average IQ score of the U.S. it is 98. So anything below 98 is below average. Contention 1-People with below average intelligence can not properly take care of a child. A) We all know that children learn best by first observing what they experience. Then they imitate what they observe. They practice what they have observed or experienced. Imitation is the natural way we learn. If the Adult with below average intelligence didn't care for school the parent isn't going to push his child to either and then his child is going to take on the mentality of "School is not important". Also the adult would care more for its needs than the child's. If the adult does not care enough to push the child to care for school then it wouldn't care about the child's lifestyle. Since it would not care about school would become a nuisance to society by either joining a gang or becoming affiliated with crime. By sterilizing B.A.I. adults they won't pass on the same personality traits that they had and eventually leading to better test scores in school and safety. B) People with below average intelligence will most likely be abusive. The type of jobs that below average intelligence people can maintain range between Factory worker and Machine operator. Now being on a low-income job usually brings hardships in American families. It is shown that child abuse and neglect has long noted an association between low-income and poverty status. This will leave the child with psychological problems, which would lead them to Complete less schooling, Having physical health problems that interfere with their job, and also mental health problems that interfere with their job. What this seems to be is a very vicious cycle going on. In order to stop that we need to sterilize them so their could be no child to abuse and their could be no child to have problems in society do develop leaving them unable to solve the most easiest situations eventually leading them down the path of the parents. Doing both these things will not only better society but also it will be doing it in the needs of the greatest good. Con 2: Sterilizing people with B.A.I. with will, with time, lower crime. A study done by Robert Goldman shows that people with low IQ are associated with crimes such as stealing and lying etc. It is also mentioned that low IQ increases criminal behavior. By sterilizing people with a low IQ they couldn't have a child to introduce into that lifestyle. In my fist contention Sub-A, I mentioned that children learn by imitation, so if they see that the adult is committing felonies and that's all they know, that is all the child will know. So if we were to sterilize them crime would then, not go away, but decrease. This would better society in safety for the greatest good.