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What are some arguments against eugenics? I feel as though the

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What are some arguments against eugenics? I feel as though the vast majority of people would turn their kids into chads or Stacys which would stagnant humanity to a degree.
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>Asians with tits
One of my fetishes. Post more.
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>>2778382
Answer the question first.
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>>2778382
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>>2778364
Do you even know what eugenics is?
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>>2778395
>Do you even know what eugenics is?
I have a vague idea it's using technological methods to alter and select the genes of your offspring. Is this wrong?
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>>2778364
eugenics was more about creating specialized classes of workers, like miners that can live underground etc.
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>>2778395

Yes, information such as this is freely available on the Interwebs, have you heard of a site called 'Google'?
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>>2778405
probably outdated now that we have robots that can do the same thing.
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>>2778398
That's genetic engineering. Eugenics is basically selection, like with dog breeding. Still, there are different kinds of eugenics, and some are widely used, e.g. women often abort pregnancies if they learn that the child will have serious defects.
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>>2778428
Let me rephase the question here than as you can't delete threads. Only mods can.

What are some arguments against genetic engineering?
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>>2778364
>What are some arguments against eugenics?

Regression to the mean makes it nigh useless.
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>>2778435
Okay then.

>I feel as though the vast majority of people would turn their kids into chads or Stacys which would stagnant humanity to a degree.
Personally, I think this is a bullshit assumption. Why wouldn't they improve their children's intelligence as well if they can? One the other hand, what concerns me is that there will be many "perfect" people and very few unique ones.
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>>2778445
>Regression to the mean makes it nigh useless.
How exactly?
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>>2778364
Because the people in charge of the enterprise inevitably end up using bad data to make decisions, develop God complexes, or both.
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Feelings, but it's okay to abort undesirable fetuses, because that's different
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>>2778473
I think he means that if you can no longer continue to enforce it, within a couple generation you lose all your progress. You have to control who people are allowed to have kids with, which is an unethical position to most anyways.
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>>2778435
>muh unique individual
>muh comparative greatness
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>>2778364
>eugenics
>implying that human mate selection is random
>implying that people don't instinctively select the best mate available in the vast majority of cases
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>>2779005
OP meant genetic engineering.
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>>2778364
Some gay shit about ethics
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>>2778364
Unironically, Rau le Creuset, a fictional character from Gundam Seed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz8OkIPNhpw
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>>2778435

I think the movie Gattaca confronts an interesting reality we'd probably face when it came to genetic engineering.

As soon as you started making genetically tailored people, the people who were not made that way (in Gattaca's case the choice of the parent, but it could also be due to povery/etc) will be strongly disadvantaged. It can reach a point where you would need proper genes to be eligible for certain opportunities as modified people completely shift the standard. Would these modified people be able to participate in athletic tournaments against normies? It raises a lot of issues, mostly between modified and unmodified groups and who the treatments are available to. Imagine a world where you have a legitimate provable standing to say you're genetically better than poor people, and what kind of fucked up political theories it could spawn.

Still, in terms of long-term human improvement I think it's a net positive. It sucks to be the guy who was born without the magical genetic cure to heart disease or alzheimers, but you shouldn't just let people get preventable diseases because you don't want to make someone feel bad.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY
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>>2778364
Eugenics was about removing the disabled from the population, and because crime was seen as a mental illness then criminals would get sterilised so they wouldn't have shitty kids
There's nothing wrong with passive eugenics as long as you aren't killing cripples but just funding the superior
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>>2779207
Informative, but the presentationis really patroniseing and obnoxious.
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>>2778382
death of diversity and people will start to engineer humans for certain occupations.
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>>2778382
It's Gong Li, a famous Chinese actress.
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