eugenics

The case against incest can be made on that base when eugenics are re-established and codified into law.

There is nothing wrong with the idea of eugenics per se, problems arise with its potential uses.

It's undeniable that Nazi eugenicists modeled their ideology after the American eugenics movement, encouraged by American academics and NGOs.

So would laws advocating eugenics, euthanasia of old people and cripples, sterilization of dumbasses, etc.

People with learning disability have been the target of eugenics in various forms.

I admire the eugenics efforts of Singapore, for example, and will be delighted to see where it all goes.

How the hell did we go from offensive words to hospitals as state run eugenics labs in one sentence?

I think we're buying way too much into genetic determinism here and this all sounds like shades of eugenics.

Okay, can we talk about how to best implement a eugenics program to help us solve this problem too?

In fact a lot of eugenics had to be hidden from the masses.

I find that people who favour eugenics are never those who would have been culled in the first place.

Go research who did eugenics, and where they got their ideas from.

Phrenology, eugenics, Blacks as having "inferior intelligence", the belief that women are prone to hysteria - all were attempts to find that link.

See also "eugenics" for another reason that academics are afraid to think too hard about how people may be different or how genes may determine things about people...

I think you should come out of your elitism bubble and actually interact with some "dumb" people (dumb according to you, you sound like a 1930 eugenics propagator with how you treat IQ).

I'm guessing that it has something to do with the very touchy issue of eugenics, the attempts to use birth control to reduce the number of "unfit", and the fact that early eugenicists and birth control proponents where also wealthy white people.