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  • July 20, 2017 at 4:14 pm #71104
    wv
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    eugenics:http://www.newschannel5.com/news/inmates-given-reduced-jail-time-if-they-get-a-vasectomy

    July 22, 2017 at 1:39 am #71145
    TSRF
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    Dunno about the title of your post. You ain’t gonna get Khan by sterilizing inmates…

    July 22, 2017 at 10:50 am #71152
    zn
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    TSRF wrote:

    Dunno about the title of your post. You ain’t gonna get Khan by sterilizing inmates…

    Eugenics just means, basically, any kind of population control based on breeding. That can mean favoring positive genetic selection of presumed desirable traits (the way it’s used in Star Trek and the breeding of Khan’s “superior” humans) or it can mean excluding presumed negative genetic traits. So for example laws forbidding racially mixed marriages were considered part of eugenics, because we’re not “supposed to” water down the white race.

    From the wiki:

    the modern history of eugenics began in the early 20th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom and spread to many countries including the United States, Canada and most European countries. In this period, eugenic ideas were espoused across the political spectrum. Consequently, many countries adopted eugenic policies with the intent to improve the quality of their populations’ genetic stock. Such programs included both “positive” measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly “fit” to reproduce, and “negative” measures such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction. People deemed unfit to reproduce often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members of disfavored minority groups.

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