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Taxes are very much a centralized mechanism. You suggested one in this domain. So you suggested a centralized mechanism for eugenics. Now you say you don't t
by nooneelse 14y ago
Taxes are very much a centralized mechanism. You suggested one in this domain. So you suggested a centralized mechanism for eugenics. Now you say you don't trust them... rather confusing.
On the other hand, the eugenics institutes I mentioned ("organizations" maybe you like that word better?); well, those could be lots of different groups of like-minded people/sub-groups spending their own resources the way they want to increase the frequency of traits in the world that they value.
If I and some friends want to pay to subsidize progeny of our choosing, how is that more scary than the various states of the world financially penalizing people (even sterilizing or jailing people in other suggestions of yours) toward similar ends?
- nnq 14y agodead thread and offtopic but to clarify: a tax is centralized, but the fact that some can pay it and some cannot it not dictated by a central authority, that's the reasoning. The state would not decide who has enough money to pay the tax, and this would be an emergent effect from economy. NOBODY would decide and this I think would be a good thing! Your group of friends could just as well finance the poor people that nevertheless they think have desirable traits. NOTE: I still would'n support such my proposed soc-eng strategy in any current society because the erosion of human rights and possibility for abuse is far too great, so the discussion is entirely theoretical anyways, but it was fun