You should be careful of such logic. For instance, eugenics and forced sterilization was a cornerstone of academic thought for some time in the US [1]. "The Im

You should be careful of such logic. For instance, eugenics and forced sterilization was a cornerstone of academic thought for some time in the US [1]. "The Immigration Restriction League was the first American entity associated officially with eugenics. Founded in 1894 by three recent Harvard University graduates, the League sought to bar what it considered inferior races from entering America and diluting what it saw as the superior American racial stock (upper class Northerners of Anglo-Saxon heritage)... Membership in the League included: A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, William DeWitt Hyde, president of Bowdoin College, James T. Young, director of Wharton School and David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University.[42]" This went on for decades and really only came to an end once Hitler, who was heavily influenced by US "progress" on this front, took things to an extreme. Quite ironic in a way that he is arguably the very reason that his vision for the future did not become the present we live in today. One need only look to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' statement (in the 8-1 majority opinion of Buck v Bell): "We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Appealing to emotion and authority instead of logic and rationale is a great way for a group to turn into a mob. Do not forget, nearly all evil in this world has been done in the name of some greater good. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States