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The terrible responses to this tweet are really terrifying, and just demonstrate how much difficulty our culture has in evaluating ideas without moral outrage.
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It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.
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Some concepts are considered taboo. They are surrounded by a layer of moral outrage because they are considered too dangerous to even bring up. People are upset because he's knowingly breaking a taboo, not because they disagree. That's why there's esoteric and exoteric teaching.
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I mean, given the meaning of eugenics and what it’s goals are, it is legitimate to ask what “works” means here. In any case…
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Because eugenics isn’t just breeding applied in humans. It was scientifically flawed when it was popular onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11 and it is still flawed now cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092
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