hello friends

I think it does, somehow, short out common sense, but I also think that common sense is less common than superpowers of one sort or another, so there you go. I find it a lot easier to believe that your average person on the street, say, has a glandular disorder allowing them to secrete enormous quantities of adrenaline for an extended period of time, allowing for limited superhuman strength and endurance, than I do, say, believing that person smart and informed enough to vote (a decent metric for common sense). Keep in mind I'm not talking about voting for President; I'm talking about voting for a new color of M&M.

I myself have virtualy indestructible tooth enamel and some kind of resistance mechanism to plaque forming bacteria. I have to brush my teeth once every few weeks while maintaining minty fresh breath, I've never had a cavity, I can chew on metal for fun (and have) etc. It's a fairly lame superpower, but it beats getting a root canal.

I guess what I'm getting at is, I'd have to estimate the percentage of the adult population who are suitable candidates for actual child-raising to be vanishingly small. Human beings as a whole are so profoundly defective it boggles the mind that they should be allowed to create additional sub-units at all, but it seems necessary for the time being due to that pesky mortality thing.

In the interim, I wish we could beat idiots with aluminum bats until they behave themselves and rein in their screaming, mewling children.