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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by Jacky Fisher
eugenics
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Had to look that word up:
Relating or adapted to the production of good or improved offspring |
Well, there's eugenics and there's eugenics.
In the 1930/40s eugenics meant castrating or killing the disabled and ethnic minorities
because you believe you are superior to them.
There is nothing "improved" about the offspring that result from racial/ethnic eugenics.
This is eugenics as a social project.
Modern eugenics is somewhat less sinister, but still controversial. DNA screening before
embryo implantation is one example.
This is not eugenics as part of a wider social project.