Nostalgic Pushhead

Eugenics is horrible. I'd love to have someone say "Well, your child has this sorta crappy gene here, so we're gunna kill it". Or "Hey, look, you're not perfect. Hey, be steralized".
Do you expect ANYONE to go along with this?
Its morally inethical. I mean, not Nazi-horrible, but bad enough.

And who's going to control this global-wide program? Are third world countries going to participate?

And not every ill in society can be killed with a gene.

But anyway, the idea will NEVER get much support, so I don't really care.

Designer babies, though, ugh. That's going to happen, soon.

meritocrat

So people have to live with terrible diseases just because someone finds it immoral.

How does curing a disease harm you or violate your rights?

the_seeker

So, Piscez, you'd rather continue wasting money treating symptoms of diseases (which more people will suffer) rather than go after the source of these diseases? Think of the millions of people that natural selection killed off. You are doing them a disservice.

Your descendants will hate you for it.

Nostalgic Pushhead

Eh, I just don't think the ends justify the means.
Yes we should work for a cure for cancer, etc, but eugenics seems pretty harsh a solution.

RED DAVE

To the_seeker:

The very first article quoted in this URL you supplied carries a pop-up window from a White supremicist organization. Despite disclaimers, eugenics has always been a red herring for one kind of racism or anotheer.

Check out the Aryan logo and the first article

RED DAVE

Psycho Economist

I feel eugenics is... redundant. We're the end result of millenia of people picking their own mates. People are the end result of a billion years of animals picking their own mates.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Wanting to reduce instances of genetic diseases is a noble enough goal, but trying to regulate who should breed and with whom is bad enough as a ham-fisted sollution to the problem. Never mind peoples' civil and human rights.

Ovazor

Any reasonable eugenics program would not be able to reduce the incidence of hereditary diseases.

Curing the disease by killing the patient?

(Edited to correct goofed attempt to quote)

meritocrat

Who said anything about 'killing patients'. Non sequitur.

the_seeker

RED DAVE:

Now eat your words.

CALDONIA

Eugenics can easily devolve into "more of me, fewer of you."

After we have eliminated horrible diseases via eugenics, do we fold the tent? Or maybe...we decide to eliminate people who might "suffer" dark skin, cleft palates, mental retardation, color blindness. Hyperbolic argument, maybe, put food for thought.

Aside from the noble cause of fighting disease, eugenics in the wrong hands becomes a means of artificial selection. While natural selection has no sense of purpose or plan of achieveing some ideal, artificial selection is an imposition based on current doctrine, fads, and fallacies.