>>619080
>and the purpose of Christianity is to fight against them.
The purpose of Christianity is the Great Comission.
Teaching new guineneean tribesmen that cannibalism is not ok is just a side-effect of that.
We evangelised the savage goths and mongols just as well.
>However Eugenics is highly suspect since it must be done for the purposes of nature instead of nurture and the purpose of defining savagery is to aid in nurture.
No, the reason its suspect is because pic related happens, and you have some mighty interesting people crawling out of the woodworks trying to remake mankind in their own image.
And having biased or misguided humans running the genetic future of humanity might result in lowered genetic diversity, or getting blindsided by some disease, because we selected for X, and X has some weird side effects we never realized.
And the more we learn about genetics, we find mendelian inheritance is only half of the story, and the effects of enviromental factors and gene expression is underrated and difficult to measure(remeber lazy lonely crickets and devouring locust swarms? Same animal, different gene expression)
https://aeon.co/essays/the-selfish-gene-is-a-great-meme-too-bad-it-s-so-wrong
We dont even know how domestication happens on a deeper level(sidenote: making animals docile makes them semi-clinically retarded compared to their wild cousins, with a decrease of 1/3 of brain mass) and thats something even illiterate peasants have known how to do for a veeeery long time.
We think its the neural crest hypothesis, but even that theory has holes.