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Eugenics: taboo everywhere apart from the dating market, wherein it is celebrated ("what a catch!").
by growlist 7y ago
Eugenics: taboo everywhere apart from the dating market, wherein it is celebrated ("what a catch!").
- awb 7y agoThere's a big difference between a top-down and a bottom-up approach to natural selection.
- antisthenes 7y agoSorry, what exactly is top-down and bottom-up in this context?
- econcon 7y agoEugenics was government policy of only letting people with favourable traits procreate. So essential preference is passed from the government (top) to people (bottom) While in dating market, people select partner which ends up changing the population
- growlist 7y agoIt's just an interesting contradiction to me, and I also find it interesting how upset some people seem to get when I point it out. Yet it's unarguable: all else being equal everybody (without issues) should celebrate their friend, relative etc. being with an obviously good catch. And nobody (without issues) intentionally picks the inferior partner, beauty being in the eye of the beholder arguments notwithstanding.
- awb 7y agoFrom Wikipedia: > programs included both positive measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly "fit" to reproduce, and negative measures, such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction. [0] Eugenics refers to an organized and systematic (top-down) approach to manipulating the genetics if a population. Obviously this is not good. Competition and dating are good, I don't think anyone is arguing with that. Confusing the two is like confusing capitalism and communism. Both systems affect the economy but in very different ways for very different reasons. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
- ionwake 7y agoIs .. is this innuendo?