Discussion Thoughts on eugenics?

[chaoschuckler]

I don't think eugenics is entirely bad. In theory, it sounds beneficial for healthier genes to be passed on. Honestly, I probably wouldn't even exist if eugenics had been practiced, and that is better for me too.
Of course, one generation might suffer because of it, but the idea is that future generations could suffer less. I don't know. What do you think? Am I being naive or ignorant? Feel free to educate me.

 

[itsgone2]

Agree. And I certainly wouldn't have existed and that would have been good.

 

[squiddedoutt]

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[bratishka]

Aldous Huxley wrote a neat book about this, it is depressing as hell though so i cannot say i reccomend it here.

 

[Dejected 55]

The problem is it has much more potential to be abused than to be used correctly. Like, most people wouldn't complain if it were used to cure a disease that might be terminal or correct a birth defect... but where do you draw the line?

Some people born with birth-defects have been inspiration for other medical advances and technological advances that have been useful for other things... and without those people being born, many of those developments might never have happened. "Necessity is the mother of invention" or so the saying goes.

We also have a lot of art (paintings, music, poetry, etc.) coming from people with various mental health issues that we likely wouldn't have ever gotten otherwise.

It's just a slippery slope when you start trying to parse what things you correct vs what things you don't.