The thing about the assertion that eugenics works for animals is that IT FUCKING DOES NOT WORK FOR ANIMALS We've inbred various breeds to the point of unavoidable defects, up to and including possible sterility. Even with plants, breeding for specific traits has hazard
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Exactly. There’s nothing objectively superior about a genotype that prevails in a given environment. And when breeding livestock or the like, it’s very difficult to eliminate a deleterious recessive allele.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria aren’t “stronger” than susceptible strains. They just have molecular/biochemical variations that prevent the antibiotic from harming them.
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