Dread_Pirate

This 1926 Eugenics Exhibits Sums Up What the Elite Think About You and Your Family

.... in 1926.

TrevorLahey

We get so offended when the subject is broached but we great humans are no different than any other animal. Period. Desirable traits can be enhanced through mating in a complementary manner just as can undesirable traits. Or be eliminated. It's Gregor Mendel 101. It's a shame we can't find some way to leverage that without going full Adolf and/or getting all butthurt.

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How about we educate the poor and the stupid?

TrevorLahey

Nothing wrong with educating the ignorant . We certainly should. But " stupid " by definition is restricted in capability to learn and stupidity is but one of the traits resulting from a particular genetic combination. If there's any benevolent path to improving our race as a whole it would be through the mating of the stupid with the gifted, raising the intelligence of the offspring over time, and discouraging the mating of the stupid with the stupid. Poverty results from many factors but lack of educability is certainly one. By improving our ability to learn and be educated we'd go some way toward addressing poverty as well. It's a double-edged sword and dangerous path though. Many pure-bred animals are more susceptible to particular diseases than corresponding mutts and mongrels, so, moral and ethical quandaries aside, we probably don't want formal eugenics programs in effect. Personally, I think it could be addressed naturally by teaching our kids to admire better role models for a start -- scientists and engineers and astronauts rather than faux-celebrity whores like the Kardashians and thug rappers and NFL players. As a society we are rotting and crippling political correctness is to blame in large part.

Spacehuman

Then I am an elite. Good for me, I guess. Evolution is real and it applies to the human species. We would be a healthier happier stronger better society if we followed Eugenic principles. It's a shame that the Nazis gave it a bad reputation and the 'everyone is a special snow flake' society we have today shuns it.

We should heavily discourage breeding among large tracts of our population - in particular genetic sub-groups shown to have lower intelligence.

TrevorLahey

Ugly, stupid people tend to have ugly, stupid kids. Visit an Alabama Wal-Mart on a Saturday night to see that in action. I'm not an elitist but William Shockley spoke some hard truths. I personally would rather see my daughter marry above my stature than to marry one of the yokelbillys and have little dullards. We want our kids to be "better" than us but society implodes when you try and quantify "better". But we all know it on the inside.

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But isn't that more nurture than nature? And why ugly? I've known some beautiful idiots in my time.

vicarious

Wow, according to the exhibit, pauperism is an unfit human trait. So they consider poverty to be genetic.

What kind of sick brain comes up with bullshit like that ?!

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The kind of brain that today thinks people choose to be poor because the don't work hard enough.

MaleGoddess

The thing about eugenics is that if you could prevent a child from being born that would be severely handicap, would you do it?

There's testing they can do with modern medicine that they can tell if your child is going be disabled long before it's birth. You have the option to terminate that pregnancy, would you? I know I sure as hell would. No one should have to live a life like that.

DJexs

That is where it should end though. You making the decision with your family. No one else needs to be involved in you or your families bodies. The problem with modern eugenicist is that they want to get rid of the poor and stupid. Like being poor is passed on through your DNA and being stupid is a crime. I think we should just stop protecting stupid people and let natural selection work lol but hating someone because their family is poor and only expecting them to be poor is some seriously fucked up shit.

MaleGoddess

Well, there's badly disabled people, any children they have will be disabled too. Should they be allowed to reproduce? There's people with disabilities who say they shouldn't, they wish their parents hadn't have, knowing that their child was going to come out with the same hardship as them.

Why would you want to bring a new life into this world that will be disabled? Or if they identified the gene that makes people more likely to be a murderer or rapist, why would you want that gene to carry on?

Also, natural selection doesn't work with a our society. The government takes care of those people.

o_V_o

...and?

onesidedsquare

are you the 4% worth keeping?

MaleGoddess

They're not talking about killing off 96% of the population, they're talking about letting the best and the brightest reproduce to fill society's ranks with the best and the brightest.

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But where does it go from there? If in 3 generations the riff-raff is bread out, what is the new determining factor for the next stage of eugenics? If Timmy doesn't have an IQ over 150 we sterilize him because hes not the "brightest"?

MaleGoddess

if 150 is far below average, then why not? he can live a full productive life, fall in love, get married.

It's a very interesting topic. We've been selectively breeding animals for ages to get the best traits out of them. What would happen if we selectively bred ourselves?

Or even better, Timmy has a low IQ, but he's very good at athletics and is a natural leader. He'll go in the bachelor pool for the police or military caste, along with female bachelorettes with the same characteristics. Do you think a society like that would work?