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Post by lindsb on Sept 25, 2017 21:08:57 GMT
The idea of eugenics was brought forth by Galton as a way to maintain and or increase intelligence of the human race. He proposed only intelligent individuals should be allowed to breed. Eugenics is very similar to natural selection and selective breeding which has been practiced by farmers for thousands of years, to yield the biggest cows, the most productive plants and so on. The key difference between the two in a strictly biological sense is that selective breeding is aimed at specific hereditary traits, whereas intelligence isn’t necessarily hereditary. The idea is all around ludicrous as it takes away the fertility rights of men and women who aren’t deemed as intelligent. How would we determine the intelligent from the unintelligent when we can’t even agree what intelligence is? The meaning of intelligence varies widely across cultures, as well as individuals and there is no agreed upon method to quantify it. Apart from not being a viable idea, eugenics has almost a genocide undertone to it, moving towards an ‘ideal’ human race through ‘cleansing’ it of anything and or anyone we don’t see fit at the time.
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Post by Daniela on Sept 27, 2017 2:05:42 GMT
Your answer is very well-developed. Reflect a little bit more on how eugenics is linked to the theory of evolution.
Daniela
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