Notice how NOWHERE in the definition is, “kill the undesirables”.
The very fact that certain genetic traits are desirable means the entire culture has SOME eugenics built right in. I’m trying to point out how the very concept IS NOT out there weird and abnormal.
This is exactly why and how horrible political ideologies fester: by treating them as if they’re abhorrent outliers that “cannot happen here”. No. Eugenics is alive and well, even in the US. It is within human nature. To act like entertaining the idea is abnormal, you push people to the extremes.
Are people dumb for being so easily swayed? YES! Though there are a lot of dumb people who can be easily swayed.
Eugenics should NOT be a dirty word, because it DOES exist in normal circles, and that fact can be leveraged by extremists to get people to sign on to their more extreme forms simply because, “anyone who thinks eugenics is good is evil!”. That’s just purely wrong and misguided.
Notice how NOWHERE in the definition is, “kill the undesirables”.
The very fact that certain genetic traits are desirable means the entire culture has SOME eugenics built right in. I’m trying to point out how the very concept IS NOT out there weird and abnormal.
This is exactly why and how horrible political ideologies fester: by treating them as if they’re abhorrent outliers that “cannot happen here”. No. Eugenics is alive and well, even in the US. It is within human nature. To act like entertaining the idea is abnormal, you push people to the extremes.
Are people dumb for being so easily swayed? YES! Though there are a lot of dumb people who can be easily swayed.
Eugenics should NOT be a dirty word, because it DOES exist in normal circles, and that fact can be leveraged by extremists to get people to sign on to their more extreme forms simply because, “anyone who thinks eugenics is good is evil!”. That’s just purely wrong and misguided.