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Defending Eugenics [pdf]
- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y agoWe already practice eugenics to a limited degree. Greater than 80% of women who detect down's syndrome through prenatal testing get an abortion.
- marchenko 10y agoany scheme that burdens humans with this degree of eugenic considerations has the social contract precisely backwards
- point001dif 10y agoPrecisely what is the goal of a breeding program? To avoid disease, no? Precisely what are the psychological ramifications of eugenics? Is there a benefit from being thought of as more desirable as a 'breeding' partner, or does that belief conflict with psychological health? Is there anything good to be derived from isolating those deemed less worthy of bearing children? Is there a single example of stratification in society that demonstrates plausible soundness of reason when separating people by what are intrinsically arbitrary metrics? If medicine has proven anything, it's that we are far more complex and diverse than we purport to be. Precluding someone via a bus eugenic practice is nothing but exclusionary ignorance based on limited data. It literally makes me sick that there are people who believe this practice is sound. Let's move on to a more cosmopolitan vantage point, shall we?
- marchenko 10y agoThis is s good observation. What is the point of introducing obsolescence cycles into the human species? The associated envy and anxiety alone overwhelms any benefit.