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Doctor Foxx posted...

Yes it is. That was called eugenics

To be fair, just because fascists embraced the idea of eugenics doesn't mean that eugenics is inherently fascist. Any more than the fact that eugenics was embraced by racists make it inherently racist.

The main problem with eugenics is how you justify it, and what criteria you use as "good" or "bad". Since humans are pretty much incapable of being impartial or unbiased, personal views are always going to creep in to any system, so there's always the risk that whoever runs the program will use it in discriminatory ways (like how when some gay people were paranoid that if science ever discovered the gene for homosexuality, people would deliberately try to breed "gay" out of the species).

Arguably, eugenics isn't automatically a terrible thing, depending on how it's handled. Technically speaking, we already practice it to some degree unconsciously (ie, humans tend to view disfigurement as unattractive and stronger forms of insanity as a deterrent, which limits their ability to perpetuate if they're genetic in nature), and we do engage in it to some degree on a more active level as well (ie, parents who believe their child will be born with a debilitating genetic disease based on pre-natal testing may choose to abort rather than give birth).


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