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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.

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.
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.

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.

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?
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.
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?