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You know how the Nazis would kill people who had obvious hereditary defects?
While I don't think such people deserved to die, I do think the human race would be a lot better off if people who had things like bad eyesight, hereditary blindness or deafness, mental/psychological disorders, and other hereditary problems that cripple a person's ability to function in life were not allowed to reproduce. In my world, people like that would be given mandatory vasectomies or tube-tyings to make for a stronger human race.
Eugenics isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Imagine how much better off genetically people would be if such traits weren't passed on. Heck, I have autism and near-sightedness and feel I thus have no right to sire children. 3nodding
Discuss. Note how I included myself as a person who shouldn't reproduce.
While I don't think such people deserved to die, I do think the human race would be a lot better off if people who had things like bad eyesight, hereditary blindness or deafness, mental/psychological disorders, and other hereditary problems that cripple a person's ability to function in life were not allowed to reproduce. In my world, people like that would be given mandatory vasectomies or tube-tyings to make for a stronger human race.
Eugenics isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Imagine how much better off genetically people would be if such traits weren't passed on. Heck, I have autism and near-sightedness and feel I thus have no right to sire children. 3nodding
Discuss. Note how I included myself as a person who shouldn't reproduce.
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While I understand your point of view to an extent, I refuse to acknowledge Nazi hatred as anything but the very worst humans represent and I'd hate to think that someone who seems as sensible as you would not see what the Nazi's did as purely evil. I don't agree.
Remember that to consider genetically superior traits for some people will involve race and possibly social status. I can't go for those as references.
Remember that the Nazis were racists in the purest sense. Recall that for them the prefect traits existed in the "Aryan" races. I surely am not Aryan and trust me, I'm pretty special.
Remember that without some forms of mental illness (like bipolar, which I have) we may not have seem the brilliance of people like Robin Williams or Kay Redfield Jamison.
Of course, many of us would like to get rid of the sociopaths and rapists and if eugenics could help, it sounds tempting.
I think it's frankly a presumptious and rather ignorant sentiment to believe that we could predict who will be "worthwhile" and who wouldn't be. I think that using factors like being predisposed to mental illness etc. to determine who should have reproduce is some of what is wrong with humanity.
I'll take life and diversity anyday. And, I'm having babies, many if I can and they'll all add their significant, diverse and necessary parts to a world dying of ignorance.
