(August 15, 2018 at 7:53 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: 1) Would you prefer to marry a good-looking man or woman?
2) Would you abort if you knew your child would have Down's syndrome?
If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you already support eugenics.
No one doubts that it is immoral to involuntarily sterilize individuals let alone entire races. But all parents want healthy children and in 15 years, we will even have genetic tests for mental illnesses. It would be immoral not to abort if you knew your fetus had all the genes for schizophrenia.
We ought to free the word eugenics from the stigma it has been received thanks to the Nazis and others. I'd wager that most of the research in genetics today is going to be used in eugenics in the future, regardless of whether we refer to it that way.
1. I prefer to marry good looking women, but they seem too stupid to return this extraordinary compliment. So I am not sure letting their genes admix with mine would actually be eugenic and not counter-eugenic.
2. Didn’t have to face the choice, but i’d say no. However, eugenics is not about any life choice that might have a specific impact on the gene pool of the next generation. It is about systematic and coercive policy to weed out portions of the gene pool.
3. Leadership begins with oneself. Why have you not removed yourself from the gene pool?
