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 Post subject: Re: Eugenics?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:39 pm 
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A primary school teacher should know that it's 'born to be hanged'.

And we've had calls for 'pre-emptive justice' here, too.

The trouble with eugenics is that, at one level, it makes sense. After all, we breed horses for speed or for the plough, dogs for pets or guards, fish or plants are bred for resistance to disease. So we would be able to breed humans for strength, or intelligence, or hardiness. Perfectly possible.
The reason why such ideas are repugnant to most thinking people is that we perceive the utter disregard for human freedom that it entails, the abnegation of so many rights we hold to be precious. Treating people like animals.

If you are the sort of Mailey who has no truck with other people having rights or feelings, then eugenics makes perfectly good sense.

That was how the Nazis worked, dehumanise your victims, then manipulate them in the way you manipulate animals. They also used incentives to people to 'breed Aryan' but that is another story.


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Dehumanising victims? Like Muslims, gays, black people, disabled people, people like that? QED.


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 Post subject: Re: Eugenics?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:28 pm 
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glasgowgril wrote:
Dehumanising victims? Like Muslims, gays, black people, disabled people, people like that? QED.


Precisely. Outside the monkeysphere...


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