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Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention. The purported goals have variously been to create healthier, more intelligent people, save society's resources, and lessen human suffering. Earlier proposed means of achieving these goals focused on selective breeding while modern ones focus on prenatal testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering. Critics argue that eugenics is immoral, and is based in or is itself a pseudoscience. Historically, eugenics has been used as a justification for coercive state-sponsored discrimination and severe human rights violations, such as forced sterilization (e.g., of those perceived to have mental or social defects) and even genocide.
Selective breeding of human beings was suggested at least as far back as Plato, but the modern field was first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1865, drawing on the recent work of his cousin, Charles Darwin. From its inception, eugenics (derived from the Greek "well born" or "good breeding") was supported by prominent thinkers, including Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill, and was an academic discipline at many colleges and universities. Its scientific reputation tumbled in the 1930s, a time when Ernst Rüdin began incorporating eugenic rhetoric into the racial policies of Nazi Germany. During the postwar period both the public and the scientific community largely associated eugenics with Nazi abuses, which included enforced "racial hygiene" and extermination, although a variety of regional and national governments maintained eugenic programs until the 1970s.
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@nika7k I agree I wouldn't defend eugenics. I have those moments you shouldn't take seriously.
emptysandwich (Brett Henderson) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:53:04 -0000
@nika7k I agree I wouldn't defend eugenics. I have those moments you shouldn't take seriously.
@emptysandwich no, there is no humane argument for eugenics just for allowing nature to take its course
nika7k (Nika B) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:50:07 -0000
@emptysandwich no, there is no humane argument for eugenics just for allowing nature to take its course
@nika7k True. He was an argument for eugenics. Defend the gene pool. ;-/
emptysandwich (Brett Henderson) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:17 -0000
@nika7k True. He was an argument for eugenics. Defend the gene pool. ;-/
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mlfonseca (Lurdes Fonseca) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:35:59 -0000
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mlfonseca (Lurdes Fonseca) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:35:58 -0000
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AAAARG (AAAARG.ORG) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:12:36 -0000
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