On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
I quoted the Wikipedia:
...At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by prominent
people,
including Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson,
Prescott Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw,
John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus
Pauling and Sidney Webb...
in a separate footnote, I said:
Eugenicists also advocated sterilizing the
mentally retarded, the insane, etc....
Shane:
Information, please. Which of those individuals in that
extraordinarily
mixed bag were advocates of sterilization?
I should have said that _some_ eugenicists also advocated...
Is there any sense in which those who did *not* advocate sterilization
were responsible for the Hitlerite policies?
Incidentally, shouldn't there be some way to differentiate "eugenics"
as concept (essentially, selective breeding--which nobody objects to
in the case of any animal or plant species except for homo sapiens
sapiens--and nowadays direct genetic manipulation, which some object
to in the case of other favored species as well as sap sap) from
"Eugenics" as social movement or state policy? Darwin, of course,
avoided this terminological problem before the fact by using the term
"sexual selection" for what might otherwise have been called "natural
eugenics."
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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