The elite couples breeding to save mankind

Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by jag3421 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:25PM (#35621273)

If we can create stronger horses through selective mating, why do you believe that would not carry over to intelligence if applied to humans? Why would it not be worth having stronger, healther, and more intelligent humans?

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by biohax2015 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:36PM (#35621393)

The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You?

Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by jag3421 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:52PM (#35621574)

The tribe. It could be enforced at the local level, and/or elevated to a higher level. Also that artist was correct, it's just taboo to admit it.

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by Teever on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:08PM (#35621750)

How will you be handle being told that you're inferior and that you're not allowed to breed?

I don't mean that as an insult. I mean it as an inevitability.

Everyone who promotes eugenics always imagines themselves as being the superior one.

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by jag3421 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:55PM (#35631892)

I would rather have a world where we strive to create the best of us, rather than rolling the dice with perpetuating hereditary diseases and leaving our future to blind luck.

To answer your question : If I were born with a horrific disease that has a significant chance to pass that down to the next generation, it would be my responsibility to not pass that down to the next generation. I would understand.

There are always superior people and inferior people depending on a multitude of variables : time, genetics, intelligence, environment, training, etc. Ignoring genetics as an essential pillar of this is irresponsible.

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by Teever on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:25PM (#35635625)

But if someone told you today, that you were not allowed to procreate, what would you do?

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by hooverd on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:27PM (#35621943)

You do not have to hand it to the Nazis on Eugenics. Preventing the "wrong people" from breeding always seems to devolve to genocide.

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Re:The elite couples breeding to save mankind by jag3421 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:43PM (#35631785)

Contraceptives prevent "the wrong people" from breeding, and is a form of Eugenics. Where is the resulting genocide?

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