crankytoad said:
You never specifically say why you support eugenics, you only tell people why they're wrong. I'd very much like to hear why you support eugenics.
OT: I don't support eugenics, but I don't dismiss it as an evil. I'm in favour of making humans genetically better, however to cut out people from the gene pool because they have an undesirable gene isn't right. Sadly, because of the Nazis, the meaning of eugenics to the general public has changed from controlled breeding with the aim of making a superior human race to euthanasia and controlled breeding to eliminate all hindering genes and people.
This means a few things:
1 - No-one will support eugenics under it's name, it would take a bit of spinning to make it popular and as soon as it's branded eugenics again you hit square one. Any political party toting eugenics in it's polices is doomed to fail.
2 - Because of it's new, more common meaning, there will be someone who will come in with the idea of controlling who can and cannot reproduce and wants to euthanise people. How far they get in their aim is uncertain.
3 - Eugenics will spread dissent throughout people. Those who aren't used in the eugenics program will hate those who are and their children and eventually they'll become a minority. Those who were born through the eugenics program will slowly become better and will become far more desirable in every job, making for a rather tricky economic crisis foundation. This is the worst of the worst, the rampant discrimination and an economic crisis would make way for that guy mentioned in point 2 to make his claim and eliminate the 'asocials'.
Yes, I do realise that these are all possibilities, however they are strong possibilities. For sake of social, political and economic stability I don't support eugenics, in this sense I deem the practice wrong. However, eugenics are morally indeterminable given the rather broad range of practices a program can cover. Without a proper laid out plan of how the program would be conducted and restricted it would be impossible to determine whether it was right or wrong.