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1Lord1Faith
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The original eugenics movement that started around 1910 quickly evolved from who should not breed based on heredity, to who should not breed based on capability. And decades later, to forcibly eliminating undesirables for the good of society, to coercively eliminating undesirables for the good of society. And today, to coercively eliminating undesirable life via rights of autonomy, convenience and efficiency.
Amid all the talk of the enlightenment of our society in the past few decades is the reality that the barbaric practices of the eugenics movement of the early 20th century have simply been repackaged and reimaged into the barbaric practices of the early 21st century. Coercive sterilization is still practiced in the US, abortion is still legal, and the practice of euthanasia is becoming more acceptable as the barbarism of abortion is finally becoming apparent to the general public. Genetic screening is the new form of the same eugenic ideology of eliminating undesirable people.
All of the education in the US that goes toward social concerns like teaching tolerance of others, not persecuting others, and equal treatment under the law have done nothing to change what seems to be an intrinsic flaw of “enlightened people” to abandon wisdom in favor of progressivism.
Like a virus, the ideology of eliminating “undesirables” has survived by being reimaged as unrecognizable for each generation. How is it that the same ideology, I’ll call it culling for idealism, can continually evolve to survive efforts to eradicate it?
Amid all the talk of the enlightenment of our society in the past few decades is the reality that the barbaric practices of the eugenics movement of the early 20th century have simply been repackaged and reimaged into the barbaric practices of the early 21st century. Coercive sterilization is still practiced in the US, abortion is still legal, and the practice of euthanasia is becoming more acceptable as the barbarism of abortion is finally becoming apparent to the general public. Genetic screening is the new form of the same eugenic ideology of eliminating undesirable people.
All of the education in the US that goes toward social concerns like teaching tolerance of others, not persecuting others, and equal treatment under the law have done nothing to change what seems to be an intrinsic flaw of “enlightened people” to abandon wisdom in favor of progressivism.
Like a virus, the ideology of eliminating “undesirables” has survived by being reimaged as unrecognizable for each generation. How is it that the same ideology, I’ll call it culling for idealism, can continually evolve to survive efforts to eradicate it?