pro-eugenicists seem to me to spend an insufficient amount of time considering the set of people who are likely to implement any eugenics program
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I think the last psychiatrist is correct and that most “genetic” issues are bad parenting. And that genetics is the favored reason for various social ills because it makes the perpetrator relatively guiltless and provides near unlimited pretext for intervention.
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I would like to believe this because I like the idea that parents have strong influences on their children post-conception, but AFAICT the evidence isn't great.
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I believe there was only one successful eugenics movement in the last two millennia and that it was conducted purely by accident (Catholic Church banning cousin marriage).
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herbert spencer just wanted to turn off welfare
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