On 5/9/13 10:50 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Whether you like eugenics or not, it has always been in general > practice ever since the first ill-formed baby was exposed a few > million years ago. It is now perhaps more prevalent than ever (since > defective fetuses can now be detected and aborted) and in the > immediate future the shaping of heredity will become all but general. > The Church is and presumably will always be a staunch advocate of > disgenics. But the mass of humanity desires to produce the best > possible offspring and will use every available scientific resource to > do so.
I never thought I would see a reference to "defective" fetuses on a mailing list like this. Trotsky was referring to state-based policies, not the decision of a mother and father to abort under a given set of circumstances. We know from history what efforts to "improve" the human race have amounted to. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
