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by yummyfajitas 5438 days ago
...but you can show how bad things end up when we start recommending eugenics.

This is a perfect example of why it's bad to reject an idea simply because it has unpleasant proponents. If we rejected eugenics based on unpleasant associations, thousands of Ashkenazi Jewish children would have died a horrible death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%E2%80%93Sachs_disease#Scree...