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If we can create stronger horses through selective mating, why do you believe that would not carry over to intelligence if applied to humans? Why would it not b

If we can create stronger horses through selective mating, why do you believe that would not carry over to intelligence if applied to humans? Why would it not be worth having stronger, healther, and more intelligent humans?

biohax2015 3y ago
The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You? Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.
- jag3421 3y ago
  The tribe. It could be enforced at the local level, and/or elevated to a higher level. Also that artist was correct, it's just taboo to admit it.
  - Teever 3y ago
    How will you be handle being told that you're inferior and that you're not allowed to breed? I don't mean that as an insult. I mean it as an inevitability. Everyone who promotes eugenics always imagines themselves as being the superior one.
    - jag3421 3y ago
      I would rather have a world where we strive to create the best of us, rather than rolling the dice with perpetuating hereditary diseases and leaving our future to blind luck. To answer your question : If I were born with a horrific disease that has a significant chance to pass that down to the next generation, it would be my responsibility to not pass that down to the next generation. I would understand. There are always superior people and inferior people depending on a multitude of variables : time, genetics, intelligence, environment, training, etc. Ignoring genetics as an essential pillar of this is irresponsible.
      - Teever 3y ago
        But if someone told you today, that you were not allowed to procreate, what would you do?
  - hooverd 3y ago
    You do not have to hand it to the Nazis on Eugenics. Preventing the "wrong people" from breeding always seems to devolve to genocide.
    - jag3421 3y ago
      Contraceptives prevent "the wrong people" from breeding, and is a form of Eugenics. Where is the resulting genocide?

biohax2015 3y ago

The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You? Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.

jag3421 3y ago
The tribe. It could be enforced at the local level, and/or elevated to a higher level. Also that artist was correct, it's just taboo to admit it.
- Teever 3y ago
  How will you be handle being told that you're inferior and that you're not allowed to breed? I don't mean that as an insult. I mean it as an inevitability. Everyone who promotes eugenics always imagines themselves as being the superior one.
  - jag3421 3y ago
    I would rather have a world where we strive to create the best of us, rather than rolling the dice with perpetuating hereditary diseases and leaving our future to blind luck. To answer your question : If I were born with a horrific disease that has a significant chance to pass that down to the next generation, it would be my responsibility to not pass that down to the next generation. I would understand. There are always superior people and inferior people depending on a multitude of variables : time, genetics, intelligence, environment, training, etc. Ignoring genetics as an essential pillar of this is irresponsible.
    - Teever 3y ago
      But if someone told you today, that you were not allowed to procreate, what would you do?
- hooverd 3y ago
  You do not have to hand it to the Nazis on Eugenics. Preventing the "wrong people" from breeding always seems to devolve to genocide.
  - jag3421 3y ago
    Contraceptives prevent "the wrong people" from breeding, and is a form of Eugenics. Where is the resulting genocide?