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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And this intense knee-jerk reaction I'm seeing about "EUGENICS=BAD" just... like... ok yes i understand that it has been used for very bad things but that does not inherently make it bad. You seem to be ok with people aborting down syndrome fetuses, so at least be consistent.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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OK UPDATE: It seems like a lot of commentators are pointing out that eugenics implies state control or overarching force. I did not have this as an association with the word. If eugenics *necessarily* implies the use of force then yeah it seems way worse.
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Ramez Naam
@ramez
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@Aella_Girl
I think there's a deep confusion about "eugenics". The horror show is really state use of force to coerce people into eugenics. When individuals & families choose on their own, I really don't see nearly the same problem. But family choice is often lumped in with state coercion.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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oh. I'm going by "the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable" as the definition, which aborting down syndrome fetuses seems to fall into for me.
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QC (4/10 Substack posts)
@QiaochuYuan
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my pet theory, which i also thought was everyone else's pet theory so it's interesting to see that it isn't, is that eugenics = hitler and after the death of god hitler is the closest thing we have to satan; they fulfill mythological roles and need to be understood mythologically
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