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Do you feel (new) Atheist culture?
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RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture?
(July 29, 2015 at 10:43 am)Alex K Wrote:
(July 29, 2015 at 10:37 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Darwin just had the usual 19th century views on blacks and the disabled.  The usual we are underbred, and blighting the gene pool tripe. And so it's rather scary to me that some people are all for eugenics where me reproducing is concerned.

You got some quotes?


With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 9:20 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 9:53 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 10:43 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 9:49 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Faith No More - July 29, 2015 at 10:02 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Faith No More - July 29, 2015 at 10:44 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by c172 - July 29, 2015 at 9:56 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Exian - July 29, 2015 at 9:59 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by AFTT47 - July 29, 2015 at 10:10 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by robvalue - July 29, 2015 at 10:18 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:45 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:11 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 29, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:49 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:54 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Spooky - July 29, 2015 at 11:01 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Faith No More - July 29, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 11:07 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 11:37 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:58 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:16 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by drfuzzy - July 29, 2015 at 11:50 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Faith No More - July 29, 2015 at 11:53 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 29, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Faith No More - July 29, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 11:59 am
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by c172 - July 29, 2015 at 12:39 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 29, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 4:10 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 29, 2015 at 5:29 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Longhorn - July 29, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 29, 2015 at 4:13 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Longhorn - July 29, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by drfuzzy - July 30, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 30, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by drfuzzy - July 30, 2015 at 4:26 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by abaris - July 30, 2015 at 12:37 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 31, 2015 at 1:20 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 31, 2015 at 2:00 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Pyrrho - July 31, 2015 at 2:15 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Minimalist - July 31, 2015 at 3:55 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Alex K - July 31, 2015 at 6:08 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Jenny A - July 31, 2015 at 7:01 pm
RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture? - by Minimalist - July 31, 2015 at 7:39 pm

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