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Eugenics was an idea pondered by the ancient Greeks. I’m not defending it, but it’s not the brainchild of a certain genocidal political party that many people s
by yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
Eugenics was an idea pondered by the ancient Greeks. I’m not defending it, but it’s not the brainchild of a certain genocidal political party that many people seem to think it is.
- throwaway2048 6y agoNot sure how that changes anything about it being psuedoscientific garbage
- lopmotr 6y agoWhat do you mean? It's selective breeding for humans the same as we do for farm animals and cats and dogs. It's not pseudoscientific.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoNo - it's pseudo moral. It's reviled because proponents are reliably racist idiots who don't even understand the limits of the science - or why breeding humans like farm animals really isn't such a great idea.
- catalogia 6y agoThe GP didn't seem to claim it was moral. Making nerve gas isn't moral either, but that has nothing to do with whether making nerve gas is pseudochemistry.
- pluto9 6y ago> It's reviled because proponents are reliably racist idiots It's reviled because it's inherently immoral. Its proponents are indeed usually racist idiots, but even if they had the best of intentions, it would still be immoral.
- mistermann 6y agoIs part of it not based on breeding, which we have done with plants and animals?