[Lorianne]

The article is a book review.

[RightWhale]

The issue is kind of on the dark side, and murky like around stagnant ponds at the end of the fall season, but the eugenicists are already moving on. Cloning is coming, and what we have seen so far from the eugenicists is just batting practice. The World Series of eugenics lies just ahead.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[cake_crumb]

Progressive = progressively destructive.

[Tailback]

I'm practicing voluntary eugenics. There's too much history of mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction, and kidney disease in the last 3 generations on both sides of my family for me to want to reproduce. In the USA though, I see reverse eugenics going on. Succesful, intelligent,healthy young couples don't have children while substance abusing welfare recieving illegal aliens have them by the dozen.

[Tailback]

I'm practicing voluntary eugenics. There's too much history of mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction, and kidney disease in the last 3 generations on both sides of my family for me to want to reproduce. In the USA though, I see reverse eugenics going on. Succesful, intelligent,healthy young couples don't have children while substance abusing welfare recieving illegal aliens have them by the dozen.

[Southack]

"Without the State, eugenics is impossible."

Wow, really?! So you mean that Tsutsis won't massacre Hutus if there is no government in Rwanda?!

[x]

This is a foolish article. Typical Rockwellite moronism. By combining fetal testing and abortion, today's America does practice eugenics. Compulsory eugenics was a horrible practice, but we can't feel too superior to those who imposed it. If they had the tools present day Americans have, they would have behaved more as we do now. One can argue that our practices are morally preferable if one wishes, but the end is the same, and the means more effective today.

[WackyKat]

With the incredible advances in genetics that are coming, eugenics will inevitably play a major role in the human future.
If one country bans certain practices, the scientists will just move their operations to a more friendly jurisdiction.
However, I don't think most practices will be banned. The multinational elites strongly favor eugenics, since they will be able to afford the procedures, and it will give their children huge advantages over the competition.
If you could give your child a 200IQ, excellent health, and a special talent in some artistic or scientific field, wouldn't you?
Rent the film "Gattaca" at the video store to get a glimpse of the future.

[xm177e2]

As valuable as the book is, however, Black doesn’t draw, at least explicitly, one important connection: Without the State, eugenics is impossible.

Programs of mass sterilization and mass murder require the state. Eugenics does not require mass sterilization or mass murder, only encouraging good DNA to be spread and/or discouraging the spread of bad DNA.

If a married couple wants to have children, but the man is sterile, and they choose to have a baby by implanting sperm in the wife from a sperm bank, and she chooses sperm from a rich, smart, psychologically and physically healthy man, she is practicing Eugenics. And that's a good thing, because her child will almost certainly grow up to be healthy, smart, and rich.

Eugenics is simply man's taking a direct interest in and artificially speeding-up evolution.