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Eugenics - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 4th Apr, 2014 - 12:25am
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Post Date: 24th Jan, 2006 - 1:20am / Post ID: #
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What are your thoughts about 'Eugenics'? Is it merely a matter of providing a better tomorrow or some kind of racial / filtering process?
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Post Date: 24th Jan, 2006 - 8:10am / Post ID: #
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Eugenics is allot like playing God in my opinion. The basic idea is that you make humanity better by "perfecting" the genetic hereditary traits of people so that each proceeding generation is better looking, or smarter, or less defective. But the process in which this is done involves birth control, selective breeding, and genetic engineering of humans. Since we obviously don't have the technology in place to do this and make a big impact, its just theory. Whether it even works or not is something all together. Evolution took millions of years to bring us here, so what we are essentially doing is speeding up the process. Whether or not is ethical or not is something that remains to be debated. I do not have an opinion on this one way or the other at this time. It seems like its more of a debate that will come up in the future, when its a reality. Though analysing current knowledge and technology should tell us that this fight may be much bigger in just a few years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
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This is a relatively benign, informational quote from the Wikipedia article linked in Konquererz post:
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| From its inception eugenics was supported by prominent thinkers, including Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill. Eugenics was an academic discipline at many colleges and universities. Its scientific reputation started to tumble in the 1930s, a time when Ernst Rüdin began incorporating eugenic rhetoric into the racial policies of Nazi Germany. After the postwar period, both the public and the scientific community generally associated eugenics with Nazi abuses, which included enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of undesired population groups. Developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century, however, have raised many new ethical questions and concerns about what exactly constitutes the meaning of eugenics and what its ethical and moral status is. |
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| In the first three decades of the 20th Century, American corporate philanthropy combined with prestigious academic fraud to create the pseudoscience eugenics that institutionalized race politics as national policy. The goal: create a superior, white, Nordic race and obliterate the viability of everyone else. How? By identifying so-called "defective" family trees and subjecting them to legislated segregation and sterilization programs. The victims: poor people, brown-haired white people, African Americans, immigrants, Indians, Eastern European Jews, the infirm and really anyone classified outside the superior genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists. The main culprits were the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune, in league with America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, operating out of a complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. The eugenic network worked in tandem with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the State Department and numerous state governmental bodies and legislatures throughout the country, and even the U.S. Supreme Court. They were all bent on breeding a eugenically superior race, just as agronomists would breed better strains of corn. The plan was to wipe away the reproductive capability of the weak and inferior. Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were coercively sterilized - legally and extra-legally. Many never discovered the truth until decades later. Those who actively supported eugenics include America's most progressive figures: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes. American eugenic crusades proliferated into a worldwide campaign, and in the 1920s came to the attention of Adolf Hitler. Under the Nazis, American eugenic principles were applied without restraint, careening out of control into the Reich's infamous genocide. During the pre-War years, American eugenicists openly supported Germany's program. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the work of its central racial scientists. Once WWII began, Nazi eugenics turned from mass sterilization and euthanasia to genocidal murder. One of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute doctors in the program financed by the Rockefeller Foundation was Josef Mengele who continued his research in Auschwitz, making daily eugenic reports on twins. After the world recoiled from Nazi atrocities, the American eugenics movement - its institutions and leading scientists - renamed and regrouped under the banner of an enlightened science called human genetics. |
There is even a dedicated organization to educate the public about eugenics:
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| https://www.eugenicsarchive.org/ We now invite you to experience the unfiltered story of American eugenics - primarily through materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940. In the Archive you will see numerous reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day. It is important to remind yourself that the vast majority of eugenics work has been completely discredited. In the final analysis, the eugenic description of human life reflected political and social prejudices, rather than scientific facts. |
Personally, I'm all for improving the quality of life for all humans, not selected races designated as superior by some think tank and political and so-called social advocacy organizations. But we, as nation, and indeed, globally, need to be very, very careful about the ethics involved in genetic experimentation.
Post Date: 9th Feb, 2013 - 9:01pm / Post ID: #
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Remember When Hillary Clinton Got Planned Parenthood's Sanger Award?
Do you remember when Hillary Clinton received Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger award with pride, even calling Margaret Sanger someone she "admired enormously?" The reasoning she gave then was the the same so many gave afterward; just because Margaret Sanger believed in and was an avid supporter of eugenics did not mean that the organization she began then shared her same beliefs today.
Could the beliefs of the founder of Planned Parenthood be excused as exaggerated, baseless, or simply a common idea of her time? Ref. Source 8
Post Date: 4th Apr, 2014 - 12:25am / Post ID: #
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Eugenics: Bioethicist Pushes Genetic Screening to Eliminate People With Low IQ
Eugenics is pernicious. Its core philosophy holds that some human beings are better than others based on invidious categorization of human capacities and characteristics.
Eugenics leads to oppression and even, killing. The old eugenics unleashed involuntary sterilization, infanticide in Germany, and the murder of disabled adults. Ref. Source 8
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