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Eugenics and choice are not exclusive; eugenics does not have to be administered through force. Singapore subsidized sterilization of poor and uneducated people
by ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
Eugenics and choice are not exclusive; eugenics does not have to be administered through force. Singapore subsidized sterilization of poor and uneducated people and that was eugenics, even though people were still able to choose whether they wanted kids. And, to get ahead of 'poor people don't have a choice because they need money to live', Singapore changed tracks and started incentivizing reproduction for educated women, and that is also eugenics. If I don't reproduce because I have a genetic disease that I don't want to pass down, I'm practicing eugenics.
Eugenics doesn't by definition mean all of the horrible abuses that have arisen from it in practice. It's just about 'improving' the human gene pool, and any method of achieving that goal qualifies.