Anyone with a functioning brain supports eugenics, whether they think about it in that terminology or not. The question is where you draw the line.
The simple act of not wanting to breed with ugly women/weak men is eugenics.
The simple act of not wanting to breed with women over 35 is eugenics.
Having fitness criteria for sperm and egg donors is eugenics.
Aborting down syndrome babies is eugenics.
All of this goes on and very few people really challenge any of it, but it's all ultimately eugenics.
This dude is right, retards should be aborted.
The strain on the school system, though, should not be the concern. The risk of their bad genes proliferating is a larger concern. The burden they place directly on their own family is the only monetary concern that isn't instantly opening the door for monstrous overreach.
I think the problem isn't that people don't support most of these measures, even if by calling it eugenics they'd pretend otherwise.
Its that once you get it beyond the individual level, and especially to the government level, it spins wildly out of control to horrible levels. Because pretty quick it goes from "abort this child to spare it a life of suffering" to "this child's Gene test said he will be a 95 IQ, kill it."
Anyone with a functioning brain supports eugenics, whether they think about it in that terminology or not. The question is where you draw the line.
The simple act of not wanting to breed with ugly women/weak men is eugenics. The simple act of not wanting to breed with women over 35 is eugenics. Having fitness criteria for sperm and egg donors is eugenics. Aborting down syndrome babies is eugenics.
All of this goes on and very few people really challenge any of it, but it's all ultimately eugenics.
This dude is right, retards should be aborted.
The strain on the school system, though, should not be the concern. The risk of their bad genes proliferating is a larger concern. The burden they place directly on their own family is the only monetary concern that isn't instantly opening the door for monstrous overreach.
I think the problem isn't that people don't support most of these measures, even if by calling it eugenics they'd pretend otherwise.
Its that once you get it beyond the individual level, and especially to the government level, it spins wildly out of control to horrible levels. Because pretty quick it goes from "abort this child to spare it a life of suffering" to "this child's Gene test said he will be a 95 IQ, kill it."
"But doctor, the child is black!"
"Uhh quick, reclassify it as middle eastern, no one will know"