• Taohumor@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As long as you don’t use the word eugenics explicitly apparently you can sell anyone on anything.

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      8 months ago

      No they acknowledge that the technology could be used that way. But there’s a lot of actual medical problems we can catch this way. Imagine you carry the Huntington’s gene. How much would you pay to make sure you don’t pass that down to your kids?

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          8 months ago

          No. Eugenics is race theory as much as it’s anything scientific. It was about making sure the “correct” races had children. I don’t know what the name for this is in science but Eugenics isn’t about making kids healthier, it’s about making them whiter.