[darksaints]

Yeah, it seems like people are just trying to find something to disagree with. It is absolutely true in the social sciences. Eugenics anyone? There are mountains of shit science out there that is rooted in the bias of the scientist.

[tomp]

Almost everyone that has kids actively practices eugenics (unless you literally have unprotected sex with literally everyone).

[p0pcult]

"the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups."

uhhhh, no.

[whatshisface]

The OP was just saying that most of the non-ineffable things about love are natural selection, and that what the eugenicists wanted was already happening naturally. Nature is cruel after all.

[p0pcult]

"actively practices" is the polar opposite of natural selection.

To wit: "Charles Darwin popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which in his view is intentional, whereas natural selection is not."[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection

[tomp]

Funny enough, it’s the Jews that extensively practice eugenics these days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim

> Its objective is to minimize, and eventually eliminate, the incidence of genetic disorders common to Jewish people, such as Tay–Sachs disease.