Eugenics is a social
philosophy which advocates the improvement of
human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.
[1] Throughout history, eugenics has been regarded by its various advocates as a
social responsibility, an
altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier and more
intelligent people, to save
resources, and lessen human
suffering. More controversially, some, such as the
Nazi regime in Germany, used eugenics as a pretext for
racial discrimination.
Earlier proposed means of achieving these goals focused on
selective breeding, while modern ones focus on
prenatal testing and
screening,
genetic counseling,
birth control,
in vitro fertilization, and
genetic engineering. Opponents argue that eugenics is
immoral and is based on, or is itself,
pseudoscience[
citation needed]. Historically, eugenics has been used as a justification for coercive state-sponsored
discrimination and human rights violations, such as
forced sterilization of persons who are claimed to have genetic defects, the killing of the
institutionalized population and, in some cases, outright
genocide of races perceived as inferior or undesirable.
The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir
Francis Galton in
1865, drawing on the recent work of his cousin
Charles Darwin. From its inception eugenics was supported by prominent people, including
Alexander Graham Bell,
George Bernard Shaw, and
Margaret Sanger. G. K. Chesterton was against the philosophy of eugenics and he expresses this in his book,
Eugenics and Other Evils. [
citation needed] Eugenics became an academic discipline at many colleges and universities. Funding was provided by prestigious sources such as the
Rockefeller Foundation, the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the
Harriman family.
[2] Three
International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York. Eugenics' scientific reputation started to tumble in the 1930s, a time when
Ernst Rüdin began incorporating eugenic rhetoric into the
racial policies of
Nazi Germany.
Since the
postwar period, both the public and the scientific communities have associated eugenics with
Nazi abuses, such as enforced
racial hygiene,
human experimentation, and the
extermination of undesired population groups. However, developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about what exactly constitutes the meaning of
eugenics and what its ethical and moral status is in the modern era.
I had to print it out, the counsin of Darwin formulated Eugenics.
Do you mean it runs in the Family?
It just gets better.
Evolution and Eugenics are lies of the serpent/ Lucifer.
God created you and me in his own likeness and image. 6000 years ago.
This evolution has to take billions of years because man has not evolve for the past 5000 years.
