> A "government based on science" might well conclude that taking care of the poor, the elderly, the ill, those born with genetic disorders, etc, is inefficient

> A "government based on science" might well conclude that taking care of the poor, the elderly, the ill, those born with genetic disorders, etc, is inefficient, a poor use of resources, and that such problems should be "optimized away." It worth mentioning that past governments did exactly that, "based on science". The crimes of the nazis makes it easy to forget that eugenics enjoyed broad popular and scientific support across western Europe and the US (one might even say that the science was considered to be settled) in the first decades of the 20th century.