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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 eugenics
84.2%
Eugenics I don't support
3.8%
Eugenics I support
12.1%

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 eugenics
13%
Eugenics I don't support
16.4%
Eugenics I support
70.6%

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 eugenics
7.7%
Eugenics I don't support
50.3%
Eugenics I support
42.1%

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 eugenics
6.4%
Eugenics I don't support
36%
Eugenics I support
57.6%

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 eugenics
24.7%
Eugenics I don't support
48.2%
Eugenics I support
27.1%

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 eugenics
9.9%
Eugenics I don't support
57%
Eugenics I support
33.1%

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 eugenics
9.1%
Eugenics I don't support
67.7%
Eugenics I support
23.2%

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 eugenics
56.4%
Eugenics I don't support
4.7%
Eugenics I support
38.9%

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 eugenics
45.7%
Eugenics I don't support
6%
Eugenics I support
48.4%

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 eugenics
5.2%
Eugenics I don't support
51.6%
Eugenics I support
43.2%

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 eugenics
9.8%
Eugenics I don't support
44.1%
Eugenics I support
46.1%

1,986 votesFinal results

4:44 PM · Nov 22, 2021

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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 eugenics
89.8%
Eugenics I don't support
3.2%
Eugenics I support
7%

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 eugenics
85.8%
Eugenics I don't support
10.2%
Eugenics I support
4.1%

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 eugenics
27.1%
Eugenics I don't support
8.2%
Eugenics I support
64.7%

2,258 votesFinal results

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Already sterile, I like free (voluntarily aggregated) money. "Congratulations, here's a taco."

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This isn't eugenics, as its purpose is to reduce the risk of child abuse, rather than to alter the gene pool.