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> They aren't pedantic details. They're just how it is. They knew the beat from the comics: that Thanos kills half the universe with a snap of his fingers. They

> They aren't pedantic details. They're just how it is. They knew the beat from the comics: that Thanos kills half the universe with a snap of his fingers. They wanted to hit that beat to mirror the comics. But it's poorly thought out. It is bad writing. Because it ignores just so much. From the killing of half the resources to the fact that we double in population a lot faster than the writers realized. Which is funny considering the writers themselves have lived through a doubling of the population. It's pedantic because it's not the point. The in-universe logic was that the heros didn't even consider Thanos's argument. It was automatically wrong and the audiences go along with it. >The words "clear detriment" are themselves very weaselly. What is a "clear detriment"? Is Down Syndrome a clear detriment? How so? Society can support people with Down Syndrome. They can have a decent quality of life. Are they suffering? No but support services to aid them are. Down syndrome would be a candidate for elimination if you truly were unbiased. Completely curing down syndrome from society as we know it has implications for all of society and generations that is by far more beneficial then the sacrifice that would otherwise be used to get there. This is the unbiased conclusion. And yes, what I am saying here is that the logical conclusion involves slaughter. But of course I wouldn't do this. I'm incapable of this because it's too morally abhorrent. But I am unbiased. Meaning I am aware of the logical conclusion. Other people who are biased cannot separate the logic from the morality. They have to twist the logic to make sense with the morality. Which is what you're doing here. >Some proponents of eugenics thought being Jewish or black were a "clear detriment". So before you go any further, you're going to have to really lock down what you mean by "clear detriment". They were wrong. But according to the best of their knowledge at the time they acted logically. Which is my point here. You're coming to conclusions based off of emotions and biases such as disgust. You're incapable of talking logically about eugenics without bias, you have to cast it off as a sort of horror; which it is, but then again the topic here is bias and you are unable to separate out the bias.

bena 4y ago
> Down syndrome would be a candidate for elimination if you truly were unbiased. Why? Why is that the "unbiased" conclusion. You keep claiming this, but don't justify it. Also, you don't have to kill a single person. You do know that, right. You can just let people with Down Syndrome finish living out their lives. The point would be to not have any more kids with Down Syndrome be born. Which would mean not letting people with Down Syndrome procreate, probably through forced sterilization. And also aborting fetuses that test positive for Down Syndrome. Obviously, you'll miss some. Because that's life. But you don't have to kill anyone. I don't know why you have such a murder boner. But eugenics doesn't have to involve the active slaughter of a single person. The fact that you think it does shows that you really aren't thinking about the problems or solutions. And you'd note, I actually agreed that eugenics works. It will breed out whatever trait you want bred out. And that the reason we don't do it is because it involves ripping people's autonomy from them. And that is wrong. We should not do to others what we wouldn't allow be done to ourselves. And there's the knock on effect that we cannot agree on the clear detriments. > They were wrong. Why? Why is having Down Syndrome a "clear detriment" but not being black? Would you rather be black or white? Why? You could make a pretty good case that society, as a whole, would be better off if we all were one uniform skin color. So that it would be to the benefit of society if we were to breed out certain levels of melanin. > But according to the best of their knowledge at the time they acted logically. Racism is hardly logical. It has no basis in logic. It requires the mental gymnastics you so readily accuse others of. This is not a position of disgust, this is a position of rationality. Melanin levels shouldn't determine how you are treated by others. And the solution isn't to breed out melanin, the solution is to remove the power of the people making it harder for those with increased levels of melanin.
- kilgnad 4y ago
  >Why? Why is that the "unbiased" conclusion. You keep claiming this, but don't justify it. Also, you don't have to kill a single person. You do know that, right. You can just let people with Down Syndrome finish living out their lives. The resources needed to support such a person have a negative effect on the parents and society in general. That is why it is unbiased. You can let them live out their lives sure this is one way to do it. But not as effective as termination right? Monitoring people for their entire lives and controlling their behavior costs a lot of resources and is no guarantee. Slaughtering people who have down syndrome and the people who are recessive carriers guarantees categorically the defect is eliminated. >And you'd note, I actually agreed that eugenics works. It will breed out whatever trait you want bred out. And that the reason we don't do it is because it involves ripping people's autonomy from them. And that is wrong. We should not do to others what we wouldn't allow be done to ourselves. And there's the knock on effect that we cannot agree on the clear detriments. Yes agreed. It's "morally wrong" but your sense of morals do not align with the most logical action that benefits society and lives in aggregate. >Why? Why is having Down Syndrome a "clear detriment" but not being black? Would you rather be black or white? Why? You could make a pretty good case that society, as a whole, would be better off if we all were one uniform skin color. So that it would be to the benefit of society if we were to breed out certain levels of melanin. The detriment of down syndrome is clear. Resources used to support these people are expensive and they provide no benefit to society. Your solution for a uniform color logically works. It can work from both directions actually. Slaughter all people with pale skin or slaughter all people with darker skin then everyone will have the same color skin. Logic. Both solutions will obviously have side effects that run deeper than just solving the skin color problem. >Racism is hardly logical. It has no basis in logic. It requires the mental gymnastics you so readily accuse others of. This is not a position of disgust, this is a position of rationality. Melanin levels shouldn't determine how you are treated by others. And the solution isn't to breed out melanin, the solution is to remove the power of the people making it harder for those with increased levels of melanin. Racism is actually behavior that is seen world wide across disparate cultures and civilizations meaning that it likely biological in origin. A biological origin indicates that it is a trait created through natural selection indicating that an aspect of racism aided human survival. We don't fully know the implications of that behavior in the modern world but historically there is some hidden logic behind that behavior that allowed the trait to be genetically universal. The complexities here make this specific topic too complex to fully analyze from a purely logical perspective, we simply don't have enough information. We do know that skin color correlates with certain certain genetic traits. For example black people also tend to have frizzy hair. This does not preclude behavior either. Eliminating people solely based off of the color of their skin inevitably will have other effects because of these correlations.

bena 4y ago

> Down syndrome would be a candidate for elimination if you truly were unbiased. Why? Why is that the "unbiased" conclusion. You keep claiming this, but don't justify it. Also, you don't have to kill a single person. You do know that, right. You can just let people with Down Syndrome finish living out their lives. The point would be to not have any more kids with Down Syndrome be born. Which would mean not letting people with Down Syndrome procreate, probably through forced sterilization. And also aborting fetuses that test positive for Down Syndrome. Obviously, you'll miss some. Because that's life. But you don't have to kill anyone. I don't know why you have such a murder boner. But eugenics doesn't have to involve the active slaughter of a single person. The fact that you think it does shows that you really aren't thinking about the problems or solutions. And you'd note, I actually agreed that eugenics works. It will breed out whatever trait you want bred out. And that the reason we don't do it is because it involves ripping people's autonomy from them. And that is wrong. We should not do to others what we wouldn't allow be done to ourselves. And there's the knock on effect that we cannot agree on the clear detriments. > They were wrong. Why? Why is having Down Syndrome a "clear detriment" but not being black? Would you rather be black or white? Why? You could make a pretty good case that society, as a whole, would be better off if we all were one uniform skin color. So that it would be to the benefit of society if we were to breed out certain levels of melanin. > But according to the best of their knowledge at the time they acted logically. Racism is hardly logical. It has no basis in logic. It requires the mental gymnastics you so readily accuse others of. This is not a position of disgust, this is a position of rationality. Melanin levels shouldn't determine how you are treated by others. And the solution isn't to breed out melanin, the solution is to remove the power of the people making it harder for those with increased levels of melanin.

kilgnad 4y ago
>Why? Why is that the "unbiased" conclusion. You keep claiming this, but don't justify it. Also, you don't have to kill a single person. You do know that, right. You can just let people with Down Syndrome finish living out their lives. The resources needed to support such a person have a negative effect on the parents and society in general. That is why it is unbiased. You can let them live out their lives sure this is one way to do it. But not as effective as termination right? Monitoring people for their entire lives and controlling their behavior costs a lot of resources and is no guarantee. Slaughtering people who have down syndrome and the people who are recessive carriers guarantees categorically the defect is eliminated. >And you'd note, I actually agreed that eugenics works. It will breed out whatever trait you want bred out. And that the reason we don't do it is because it involves ripping people's autonomy from them. And that is wrong. We should not do to others what we wouldn't allow be done to ourselves. And there's the knock on effect that we cannot agree on the clear detriments. Yes agreed. It's "morally wrong" but your sense of morals do not align with the most logical action that benefits society and lives in aggregate. >Why? Why is having Down Syndrome a "clear detriment" but not being black? Would you rather be black or white? Why? You could make a pretty good case that society, as a whole, would be better off if we all were one uniform skin color. So that it would be to the benefit of society if we were to breed out certain levels of melanin. The detriment of down syndrome is clear. Resources used to support these people are expensive and they provide no benefit to society. Your solution for a uniform color logically works. It can work from both directions actually. Slaughter all people with pale skin or slaughter all people with darker skin then everyone will have the same color skin. Logic. Both solutions will obviously have side effects that run deeper than just solving the skin color problem. >Racism is hardly logical. It has no basis in logic. It requires the mental gymnastics you so readily accuse others of. This is not a position of disgust, this is a position of rationality. Melanin levels shouldn't determine how you are treated by others. And the solution isn't to breed out melanin, the solution is to remove the power of the people making it harder for those with increased levels of melanin. Racism is actually behavior that is seen world wide across disparate cultures and civilizations meaning that it likely biological in origin. A biological origin indicates that it is a trait created through natural selection indicating that an aspect of racism aided human survival. We don't fully know the implications of that behavior in the modern world but historically there is some hidden logic behind that behavior that allowed the trait to be genetically universal. The complexities here make this specific topic too complex to fully analyze from a purely logical perspective, we simply don't have enough information. We do know that skin color correlates with certain certain genetic traits. For example black people also tend to have frizzy hair. This does not preclude behavior either. Eliminating people solely based off of the color of their skin inevitably will have other effects because of these correlations.