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by fruitworks 215 days ago
The fundamental problem with eugenics, besides the immorality, is the misalignment of artifical selection with natural selection. The eugenicists always think they know best, but mother nature always gets the last word in the end
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For better or worse, modern sanitation, medical care, industrial farming, and predator control have virtually eliminated the effects of natural selection on human genetics. Any changes going forward will inevitably be mostly artificial.
Well then natural selection has spoken. No need to select when it provides no survival benefits.
There is no need to select... until there is
Healthcare is part of the environment an organism lives in…
Utter nonsense. Anything that is possible is "natural."
These are terms of art in evolutionary theory.