We don’t actually know that addiction is genetic or that eugenics is effective in preventing mental illnesses like addiction. Recall that Germany killed all the

We don’t actually know that addiction is genetic or that eugenics is effective in preventing mental illnesses like addiction. Recall that Germany killed all their schizophrenics in the holocaust, but just a generation or two later Germany has just as many schizophrenics as anyone else. Edited to add: addiction also generally shows up later in life. For example a mother of two is prescribed pain medication and becomes addicted. Should her children, who have no presentation of addiction, also be forcibly sterilized along with her? Or a grandmother, should all of her normally functioning adult children and grandchildren be forcibly sterilized since she’s already hit menopause? This is an ultimately shortsighted view garnered only by ignorant understandings of societal wide illnesses.