Scott has directly said he likes eugenicshttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1276353023782993920?s=19 …
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Scott has directly said he likes eugenicshttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1276353023782993920?s=19 …
Arthur Chu added,
He's said the word but ...in that quote he literally says paying people to get sterilized would be far too coercive a thing to do, which means he's clearly not talking about the same family of things "eugenics" usually refers to
Setting aside whether he's right about whatever he actually means by "eugenics" here, you're also doing this same thing of blatantly lying about what he thinks
He's probably wrong about it, tbc, but he's also clearly talking about completely different kind of thing (I'm not even sure what; have only ever been an occasional reader)
If you don't think the general idea of "improving the genetic quality of the human population" is morally vile I don't care what you think about anything
Seems like it depends a ton on what you mean by "quality" but...should we ban testing for Huntington's etc then?
Like I'm not sure where the line is, but someone wanting to adopt rather than have biological kids if they turn out to be a Huntington's carrier seems both perfectly fine and obviously "eugenics" in the sense you mean
Don't want to speak for Arthur but to me the difference would be - if a person wants to adopt after genetic testing, that's about improving the quality of their own and their hypothetical child's life (it could still be ableist in other ways, potentially.) (1/2)
Eugenics by necessity has to deal in population genetics. Requiring people with Huntington's genetic markers to adopt would be eugenics. Putting social pressure on them to do so, too, if done in a coordinated fashion.(2/2)
I am, in fact, neutral/hesitant about the idea that it might be better just to ban or restrict retail DNA testing, which is something Scott outrage-blogged about as evil censorship
At the very least can we acknowledge the "We tried to create a scientific definition of ethnicity and then tell you what yours is!" angle has no possible medical benefit to anyone, can only cause social harm, and yet is there because it's obviously what consumers care about
Oh yeah, that part's silly at best and gross at most times.
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