(August 15, 2018 at 8:50 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:(August 15, 2018 at 8:40 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Preferring good looking people is selective breeding. Not eugenics. Eugenics is bad, because it presumes we can control exactly what people will get by only focusing on certain people, and removing the rest. There is of course the issue of who should be included in this "good looking" group. Are we going to start seeing people breed for tiny waists, and huge boobs/butts? Or do we pick other factors? Are only white people considered good looking? How far do we go to make sure other groups don't breed?
The best thing to do is let people take their own risks, and make their own decisions.
(My bold) That's precisely what I advocated in my OP.
No one should be prevented from breeding but we must let expectant parents make optimal decisions that ensure healthy offspring.
Letting people make their own reproduction decisions is not really what eugenics is, though.
Eugenics | Define Eugenics at Dictionary.com
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the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed ...
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.