Quote:I believe eugenics should be emphasized in today's society also, just in a slightly more peaceful way, considerably
WHY?
You seem to be arguing people can be genetically modified, like plants and that perhaps that's a good idea.. It smells a little of the nature/nurture dichotomy.
OR are you simply suggesting removing genetic predisposition to some things;such as certain diseases and impairments?
Eugenics was popular well before the Nazis came to power as were several theories of racialism. (alive and well in the US and Australia until well after WW2) The Nazis put some principles of eugenics into practice,albeit very crudely. EG murdering the mentally impaired,the insane and some phsyically handicapped people.
With the development of knowledge of DNA from early 1950's, manipulation of the human genome has become a real possibility. My concerns is one of degree. IE exactly what will we try to modify? I have no doubt there are still idealogues who want to create a herren volk or the perfect soldier and scientist naive enough or corrupt enough to try.
Quote:Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program, also called Euthanasia Program, in Nazi Germany spanning October 1939 until August 1941, during which physicians killed 70,273 people[1] specified in Hitler's secret memo of September 1, 1939 as suffering patients "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination",[2] but described in a denunciation of the program by Cardinal Galen as long-term inmates of mental asylums "who may appear incurable".[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4
Quote:Hitler's views on eugenics
Adolf Hitler read racial hygiene tracts during his imprisonment in Landsberg Prison. He thought that Germany could only become strong again if the state applied to German society the principles of racial hygiene and eugenics.
Hitler believed the nation had become weak, corrupted by the infusion of degenerate elements into its bloodstream.[citation needed] These had to be removed quickly. He also believed that the strong and the racially pure had to be encouraged to have more children, and the weak and the racially impure had to be neutralized by one means or another.
The racialism and idea of competition, termed social Darwinism in 1944, were discussed by European scientists, and also in the Vienna press during the 1920s, but how Hitler picked up these ideas is uncertain.[2] In 1876, Ernst Haeckel had discussed the selective infanticide policy of the Greek city of ancient Sparta.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics
