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You would think that eugenics was thoroughly discredited during the twentieth century, but apparently we need a phrase that means the opposite of “throwing the
by applecore 12y ago
You would think that eugenics was thoroughly discredited during the twentieth century, but apparently we need a phrase that means the opposite of “throwing the baby out with the bath water”—unleashing a terrible negative upon the world in order to attain something desirable, but relatively minor and probably attainable by other means.
- gizmo686 12y agoThankfully a horrible implementation of a concept does not completely discredit it forever.
- mikeash 12y agoI nominate something like, "Swatting a fly with a nuclear bomb."
- yummyfajitas 12y agoYou'd be wrong. It's been proven highly effective for humanitarian purposes. It's also quite effective in animals. https://www.jewishgenetics.org/dor-yeshorim https://www.jewishgenetics.org/dor-yeshorim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breeding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breeding Are you really arguing that the theory of evolution (which is all you need for eugenics to be scientifically valid) has been "thoroughly discredited"? Note: Nazi science teaches us how to send a rocket to the moon, and also how to drop bombs on people. You don't need to declare rocketry as "discredited" to argue against dropping bombs on people.