>>762234
Like many touchy issues, on eugenics the thing they advertise is NOT the thing they deliver. With things like this there's always the promise of a rigorous committee, which in practice is actually a rubber stamp.
A similar and more recent case is the "right to die" debate.
On the surface, the question is whether a terminally ill old man has the legal right to commit suicide. Christianity says no. But this isn't even the question in reality. The question is whether death can be prescribed to a patient; once it is prescribed it can simply be executed. If the local powers find you inconvenient then they'll just rush you off to a clinic where you'll be diagnosed and then "treated" with this system.
The eugenics controversy encompasses several things, but two key points are encouraged breeding and suppressed breeding.
With encouraged breeding, the government is paying selected people to reproduce. Sounds entirely innocent? Well when these states fall to war (as Nazi Germany did) the expanded resources are chopped back down to normal. This means lots of people suffer tremendously. Then there is suppressed breeding, aka forced contraception. The basic idea that The Magic Committee would conduct research into people's lives and make informed decisions. In reality, in USA, rape victims were sterilized for not having a husband to take care of their baby.
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