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Robot Bender's avatar

One big problem is the idea of making the population "better." Who decides what "better"is?

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Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

"Better" is when the population feels heard and seen, and when their living conditions are uplifted sa as to be not onerous. They must feel they can live and cope. When they are treated with humanity they will automatically lessen their anger, aggression and hopelessness and will become ordinary citizens.

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Robot Bender's avatar

I'm referring to eugenics here. Who decides who the "better" people are?

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Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

Nobody has the ability to decide who the “better” people are. Eugenics is looking the wrong way through the binoculars.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Hence my comment.

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Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

We try to show appreciation of their good qualities while speaking up about the inequalities of the day. These people have never been taught to love or any of the true gentler sides of life. We fight the wrong or illegal stunts that are tried as fast and as hard as we can. We *never* give up; we *never* give in to any value we deplore. We continue to live with consideration, decency and our core values at all times.

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Charles Wukasch's avatar

"In modern times popular musicians and athletes have groupies." It's not just in modern times. One of the Latin authors (his name escapes me - mea culpa) two millennia ago complained that "there are women who will go to bed with any gladiator, no matter how ugly he may be, merely because he's a gladiator."

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Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

You ask what's wrong with eugenics, and the answer is quite simple: everything! No person has any right whatsoever to end the life of another. We are here to help, look after, encourage and to enable the best of each one of us. We are a family and belong to each other we are not individual killing machines.

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

I agree with you Gayle Frances Larkin. You wrote that eloquently. With that I wonder how do we get a growing number of unreasonable, narcissistic, aggressive, greedy, hate-mongers to respect humanity and the very planet we live on?

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John imperio's avatar

“The percentage of women who have abortions after being diagnosed with Down syndrome in their child varies, but estimates range from 60% to 90% in the United States. This is significantly higher than the overall abortion rate for all pregnancies, which is around 18%”

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