the label 'eugenics' somehow covers both horrific atrocities such as state-forced sterilizations, and also legally enforced, widely supported things like preventing siblings from marrying. This is an *absurd* word! I can't believe we still use it.
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TO BE CLEAR, I am extremely against things like state-forced sterilizations, and very pro things like "parents being able to avoid having children with debilitating genetic diseases". If anyone is like 'aella supports eugenics' the thing I actually support is the latter category.
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My sister has a bad genetic disease that will likely severely impact her quality of life and life expectancy, and she's been concerned about ever having children. But with ""eugenics"", she could ensure that her children will be free of that disease.
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other people die on the more common hills, someone gotta die on the random ones
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Some of what’s been labeled “systemic racism” involves dysgenic paternalism.
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In the UK, NHS will pay for IVF, testing and selective embryo implantation for those with, for example, very high genetic predisposition to breast cancer.
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Everythint related to procreation is eugenics.
What we must be observant about is no State involvement.
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That´s normal.
"Communism" is both a group of people doing a voluntary commune where they work for common good, and totalitarian states trying to enslave world.
"Enviromentalist" is both people growing trees at edges of desert, and people destroying infrastructure to protest.
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Well, since those things still happen, we should only use it for those things and come up with a better term for self-chosen medical interventions.