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Many good points there. I'd just like to point out that eugenics is demonized partly because it was taken to an extreme by the Nazis which are demonized. It's n
by averagewall 9y ago
Many good points there. I'd just like to point out that eugenics is demonized partly because it was taken to an extreme by the Nazis which are demonized. It's not necessarily bad. We do it in a broader form when we choose partners - who wants to pick the disabled or mentally ill person to have children with? All else being equal, we usually prefer a partner without genetic "defects" according to whatever the popular idea of a "defect" is.
- cooper12 9y agoBetween two people, it's just called sexual selection. When I think eugenics, I think of it happening on a more systematic scale like the sterilization of the poor. (http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/americas_secret_history_of_forced_sterilization_remembering_a_disturbing_and_not_so_distant_past/ http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/americas_secret_history_of_f...)
- averagewall 9y agoI do too. Does it make much difference though if it's a centralized or distributed decision? The end result is the same but people are selected for different traits.
- benchaney 9y agoIt is hugely different. How decisions are made is different. What decisions are made is different. The only similarity is that they both involve decisions.
- averagewall 9y agoBoth are systemic and consistently skew the population of people who reproduce. Both also discriminate against people that the system decides aren't worthy of reproducing. Either poor people, ugly people, diseased people, etc.