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From Wikipedia: > programs included both positive measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly "fit" to reproduce, and negative measures, such
by awb 7y ago
From 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