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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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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Ian
@IanAdAstra
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Parents should be encouraged (not forced!) to produce mentally & physically excelling offspring & avoid birthing those with severe mental & physically debilitation that produces unproductive lives full of suffering & dependency.
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RunSilent 2x-vaxxed 3x-boosted RunDeep
@runsilent
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@Aella_Girl
I think the word bears the reputation it got in the ~1920s, when many "progressive" voices used that word to describe their "scientific" approach to "improving the nation's gene pool." Which was coded language for "non-Protestant immigrants are congentially stupid etc." 1/x
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@canttakeitwith
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Oh cool, another friend of the disabled. Nothing says you love the disabled like suggesting it might have been better if they had not been born. It's good that George Bailey was born because he increased the utility of Bedford Falls. But the disabled??
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