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by p0pcult 1318 days ago
"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.
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whatshisface 1318 days ago
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.
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p0pcult 1318 days ago
"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

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tomp 1318 days ago
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.

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