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Date: Jun 15, 2008 15:11
Eugenics is selective breeding meant to enhance and empower the gene pool.
Here are several objections to eugenics:
1. It can only work by interfering with the normal mate choice of a
so-called superior human being (as if their old choices were wrong, even
though they are superior).
2. It changes the very laws of society in relation to which anyone must have
originally been called superior.
3. It reduces genetic diversity.
4. If body size is increased, it reduces the available quantity of food and
other resources in comparison.
5. It raises the fitness threshold only by making the world needlessly
dangerous.
Any others?
What about objections to the above-mentioned objections?
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Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Jun 15, 2008 16:25
On Jun 16, 8:11 am, "Scott H" wrote:
> Eugenics is selective breeding meant to enhance and empower the gene pool.
>
> Here are several objections to eugenics:
>
> 1. It can only work by interfering with the normal mate choice of a
> so-called superior human being (as if their old choices were wrong, even
> though they are superior).
>
> 2. It changes the very laws of society in relation to which anyone must have
> originally been called superior.
>
> 3. It reduces genetic diversity.
>
> 4. If body size is increased, it reduces the available quantity of food and
> other resources in comparison.
>
> 5. It raises the fitness threshold only by making the world needlessly
> dangerous.
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Jun 15, 2008 22:09
On Jun 15, 3:11 pm, "Scott H" wrote:
> Eugenics is selective breeding meant to enhance and empower the gene pool.
>
> Here are several objections to eugenics:
>
> 1. It can only work by interfering with the normal mate choice of a
> so-called superior human being (as if their old choices were wrong, even
> though they are superior).
>
> 2. It changes the very laws of society in relation to which anyone must have
> originally been called superior.
>
> 3. It reduces genetic diversity.
>
> 4. If body size is increased, it reduces the available quantity of food and
> other resources in comparison.
>
> 5. It raises the fitness threshold only by making the world needlessly
> dangerous.
> ...
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Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Jun 16, 2008 02:11
Immortalist wrote:
> If Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of
> human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention and
> throughout history, it has been regarded by its various advocates as a
> social responsibility, an altruistic stance of a society, meant to
> create healthier and more intelligent people, to save resources, and
> lessen human suffering, then who gets to choose who gets to live or
> which traits are weeded out of the gene pool? It seems like a
> combination of the abortion and death penalty debates. Then again
> there is all kinds of selection going on in culture at various levels,
> when does it interfere with individual rights and isn't the way laws
> help determine when it does a guide for flat out death/life/mutation?
Dont worry...
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Author: curmudgeoncurmudgeon Date: Jun 16, 2008 11:57
The so called "White Lab Rat" is or was the "Norwegian Black Rat" inbred to
the extreme.
*curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"
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Author: John JonesJohn Jones Date: Jun 16, 2008 15:15
Immortalist wrote:
> On Jun 15, 3:11 pm, "Scott H" wrote:
>> Eugenics is selective breeding meant to enhance and empower the gene pool.
>>
>> Here are several objections to eugenics:
>>
>> 1. It can only work by interfering with the normal mate choice of a
>> so-called superior human being (as if their old choices were wrong, even
>> though they are superior).
>>
>> 2. It changes the very laws of society in relation to which anyone must have
>> originally been called superior.
>>
>> 3. It reduces genetic diversity.
>>
>> 4. If body size is increased, it reduces the available quantity of food and
>> other resources in comparison.
>>
>> 5. It raises the fitness threshold only by making the world needlessly
>> dangerous. ...
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Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Jun 18, 2008 07:32
On Jun 18, 10:31 am, Topaz hotmail.com> wrote:> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:11:06 -0400, "Scott H" wrote:
>>Eugenics is selective breeding meant to enhance and empower the gene pool.
>
>>Here are several objections to eugenics:
>
>>1. It can only work by interfering with the normal mate choice of a
>>so-called superior human being (as if their old choices were wrong, even
>>though they are superior).
>
>>2. It changes the very laws of society in relation to which anyone must have
>>originally been called superior.
>
>>3. It reduces genetic diversity.
>
>>4. If body size is increased, it reduces the available quantity of food and
>>other resources in comparison.
>
>>5. It raises the fitness threshold only by making the world needlessly
>>dangerous. ...
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Author: TopazTopaz Date: Jun 18, 2008 13:14
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:32:42 -0700 (PDT), "bigfletch8@ gmail.com"
gmail.com> wrote:
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>Same old philosophy/idealism matched with new technology.
Hot air
>
>Seeking the ultimate good, is what creates so called 'evil'.
bull shit
>
>You are equating quality with the genome.
methane fumes
>
>Perhaps a new word is called for in lieu of racism.
>Geneism perhaps.
"There's this hilarious disconnect in the sheeple brain, where they
have been progressively brainwashed over a forty year period into
believing that once they have committed suicide themselves, an
identical...
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