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by aaronem 4581 days ago
>Only in situations where society has power over individual choice[.]

That is every situation in which exists something fairly describable under the name "society".

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There are degrees in which society must suppress an individual's impulse in order to maintain cohesiveness, and so long as that control is limited to ensuring that everyone's rights are upheld (meaning, I have all freedoms that do not infringe on your rights), then nobody's ever anything more than irritated.

It's only when a society tries to impose value judgements on others, and to be fair, they almost always do, that unfairness creeps in.

Regardless, I think we're fairly far afield of the original discussion, so I'll demur on this.

To circle back around though, the idea that one should optimize for genetic advantage with his or her own offspring is no more offensive than when I volunteer at soup kitchens to help the less fortunate.

Compelling either situation though is (at least in my opinion) quite wrong-headed indeed.