Eugenics Poll Thread: what do you consider to be eugenics, and do you support it? If possible, please vote for the 'eugenics' part only; if you disagree with other parts of the scenario (like if you object to government funding on principle) please ignore that
POLL 1:
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A country provides free screening for down syndrome, counselling that recommends abortion for down syndrome fetuses, and funding for those abortions. This is:
- Not eugenics18%
- Eugenics I don't support27.8%
- Eugenics I support54.3%
2,590 votesFinal results
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A country offers $5000 to any woman who reproduces, if she scores in the top 10% of a set of (carefully designed, reliable) tests meant to judge general intelligence. This is:
- Not eugenics7.7%
- Eugenics I don't support45.9%
- Eugenics I support46.4%
2,449 votesFinal results
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A country offers $5000 to women belonging to the most oppressed minority group upon the birth of each child they have. This is:
- Not eugenics39.1%
- Eugenics I don't support54.1%
- Eugenics I support6.8%
2,324 votesFinal results
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A strong trend sweeps the movie industry where computer programmers are portrayed as devastatingly sexy. Over the coming years, this causes programmers in real life to have more success in dating and marriage, increasing their chances of reproduction. This is:
- Not eugenics84.2%
- Eugenics I don't support3.8%
- Eugenics I support12.1%
2,329 votesFinal results
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A company provides technology that allows people to screen their embryos for many health risks, including risk of genetic diseases, heart attack, and anxiety/depression, and then proceed to choose which embryo they want. This is:
- Not eugenics13%
- Eugenics I don't support16.4%
- Eugenics I support70.6%
2,258 votesFinal results
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A company provides technology that allows people to screen their embryos for cosmetic physical traits - eye/hair color, future beauty, future breast/penis size, etc, and then proceed to choose which embryo they want. This is:
- Not eugenics7.7%
- Eugenics I don't support50.3%
- Eugenics I support42.1%
2,183 votesFinal results
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A company provides technology that allows people to screen their embryos for intelligence, focus ability, and dedication, and then proceed to choose an embryo of the level of intelligence that they want. This is:
- Not eugenics6.4%
- Eugenics I don't support36%
- Eugenics I support57.6%
2,141 votesFinal results
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A company provides technology that allows people to choose the gender of the child they want to have. This is:
- Not eugenics24.7%
- Eugenics I don't support48.2%
- Eugenics I support27.1%
2,166 votesFinal results
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A very wealthy man independently sets up a fund that pays people he thinks will have bad outcomes in life (e.g., poorer, high-crime, low life quality people, etc.) a single large, lump sum to get sterilized. This is:
- Not eugenics9.9%
- Eugenics I don't support57%
- Eugenics I support33.1%
2,124 votesFinal results
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A country introduces sterilization as a potential punishment for people who repeatedly commit mid-level crimes (excluding victimless crimes) such as burglary, muggings, or physical assault. This is:
- Not eugenics9.1%
- Eugenics I don't support67.7%
- Eugenics I support23.2%
2,085 votesFinal results
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A group of female friends all decides who to marry influenced by factors such as how healthy, intelligent and successful their partners are, so that they're more likely to give birth to higher quality children. This is:
- Not eugenics56.4%
- Eugenics I don't support4.7%
- Eugenics I support38.9%
2,062 votesFinal results
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A lesbian couple is looking for a sperm donor, and choose their donor based on how healthy, smart, and happy the donor seems to be. This is:
- Not eugenics45.7%
- Eugenics I don't support6%
- Eugenics I support48.4%
2,151 votesFinal results
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A country passes a program to strongly encourage sterilizing the severely mentally handicapped; people who must live with assistance and are under the mental age of 12. This is:
- Not eugenics5.2%
- Eugenics I don't support51.6%
- Eugenics I support43.2%
2,015 votesFinal results
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An organization offers money to people to get sterilized, who score very high in factors predicted to lead to child abuse, such as sociopathy or narcissism. This is:
- Not eugenics9.8%
- Eugenics I don't support44.1%
- Eugenics I support46.1%
1,986 votesFinal results
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A religion offers strong family support for families who are part of the religion; they have community network structures that cook meals for new mothers, give financial aid for their families in need, and offer easy, cheap religious schooling for the children. This is:
- Not eugenics89.8%
- Eugenics I don't support3.2%
- Eugenics I support7%
1,961 votesFinal results
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For centuries, a government has been providing poor single mothers just enough money to live on without working. This is:
- Not eugenics85.8%
- Eugenics I don't support10.2%
- Eugenics I support4.1%
2,171 votesFinal results
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A dating app has an option to input your genetic diseases and filter out other people with the same genetic disease, to reduce the risk of passing the genetic disease to future offspring. This is:
- Not eugenics27.1%
- Eugenics I don't support8.2%
- Eugenics I support64.7%
2,258 votesFinal results
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