RE: What do you think about Eugenics?
May 30, 2015 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2015 at 11:05 am by Dystopia.)
(May 30, 2015 at 8:47 am)Rhythm Wrote: The justification offered for reproductive limits and compulsory sterilization is future resource scarcity...and yet those of us with just two children or less - no coercion involved..are the ones with the lion's share of the resource pie...whilst the unwashed masses with 20 child families barely get a bite and are not, thusly, contributing to that problem through sheer weight of numbers...as your suggestion would seem to imply.
Your suggestion...btw, might be construed as a call to sterilize the poor.........just tossing that out there in case you hadn't considered it.
I think that we might want to allocate resources better, before we go to jotting down a number of kids a person can have before Uncle Sam waves a scalpel at their genitals.
Additionally, I would like to know why people believe the slippery slope wouldn't apply to eugenics? Who decides what are desirable traits? Is it just intelligence? Physical Strength? Beauty) If it's intelligence, are IQ tests enough? Where do we start, and where do we stop? Should people lose the right to marry whoever they want if it violates the eugenics program?
Quote:Actually, eugenics doesn't say anything about perfection. It only seeks to increase the strength and incidence of what is considered desirable genetic traits by those making the selection.C'mon, eugenics and its proponents don't openly argue they want to create a perfect species, but that's the ultimate goal - Maybe not literal perfection, but to create a very desirable, superior, stronger and smarter species. Who decides what is desirable?
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