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June 6, 2014
The in-group stress test
In other words, a loyalty test: Do you support eugenics?If you do not, you’re in the group. But that means it’s not enough to passively not support eugenics. You must crusade against it. The question has now become: Do you oppose eugenics? You know, like the rest of us. Join us or you’re the enemy. At this point, politics is not about “issues.” The issues are loyalty tests.| Amerika
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 6, 2014 10:35 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Marriage is mostly about eugenics. Who are these leftoids kidding, themselves? Even single mothers are practicing eugenics, however badly.
In the back of the mind of liberalfascism, but not too far back, is the idea that the state should control reproductive selection. Maybe that's a job for the geniuses at Section 8 housing in their spare time.
Posted by: james wilson at June 6, 2014 11:01 AM
Eugenics: Indiana's answer to the Muslim problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Ishmael_Tribe
Not for it, but hey ...
Posted by: edaddy at June 6, 2014 11:14 AM
Well, it's dunce time again. Strike up the muzak!
Step out to the puppeteer's program/agenda and prance.
The most beneficient question would be, "Are you in favor of proper genetic testing, blood testing, psychological testing to prevent and control the spread of deadly diseases, monstrous birth defects, catastrophic spread of viruses, ...? The only remainder in question is for the society to set limits on intervention and to define "proper" in each instance or category of health threat. Not easy to do, but necessary for a life-respecting civilization -- you know, like the kind you read about in fantasy books.
For example, if some medical maven figured out a blood test to determine who was a likely carrier of a deadly contagious disease, would you oppose involuntary sampling of the population? If you say yes, you say yes to more tuberculosis, Ebola virus, yellow fever?, infantile paralysis, SARS, MERS,...
Define what aspects of eugenics you are replying to rather than accept a stifling meaningless question.
Posted by: Howard Nelson at June 6, 2014 5:49 PM
I am in favor of Eugenics. You have only to look around you to see the results of bad breeding.
How could it be any worse than runt of the litter and no childs left behind? Lowest common denominator means just that: lowest.
Posted by: chasmatic at June 6, 2014 9:15 PM
Eugenics is supported by Darwin's theories. With every other species of animal and bird and fish the strong survive and the weak perish. Even in Russia, where they always take old granny or gramps when they go visiting. If a pack of wolves chases them they will toss the elder off the back of the sleigh to slow down the wolf pack. This is primarily so the rest of the group can survive. And so it should be with us. We are, after all, smarter than Russians are we not? Of course a metaphorical translation is needed for us because we don't have that many sleighs. I say we should strive for the greatest good for the most amount of people.
Posted by: chasmatic at June 7, 2014 8:11 AM
uh- guys-
The essay was not about eugenics.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at June 7, 2014 8:37 AM