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Thursday, March 10, 2011

The New Eugenics: Selecting for Intelligence–Or, What’s Love Got to do With It, Julian Savulescu?

The New Eugenics: Selecting for Intelligence–Or, What’s Love Got to do With It, Julian Savulescu

Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression, exploitation, and killing.

We saw that with the first eugenics, invented by the English statistician Francis Galton, who posited a “good in birth” philosophy, which sought to increase the number of the “fit” (people like him) and decrease the so-called unfit. Galton promoted a “positive” eugenics, that is, one that urged the better people to procreate more bounteously, which he thought necessary to save society for the low lifes that threatened a demographic cultural destruction.

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