Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "The Dark side of Science: The Horror of Eugenics Theory (Short Documentary)" video.

  1. Eugenics could have been applied far more gently and more used as a guide for parents with certain risk factors. Instead, it became a bloody knife used to hack at otherwise healthy flesh.
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  2.  @Peasham  You've never heard of soft eugenics? I'm going by that example myself, I have a genetic disease, I'm not breeding by choice. Eugenics has a bad name because of the evil done. I don't know if you know this, but we've been using eugenics for centuries. Ever eat beef, poultry, mutton, or pork? Eaten any fruits or vegetables grown on a farm? How about having a dog or a cat for a pet? Eugenics took wild plants and animals and domesticated them. It's not ALL evil, it was just glommed onto by people with VERY evil intents. If one were inclined, one could potentially utilize the same knowledge and techniques to breed people better suited to certain tasks. For example, taking athletes of specific skills, running for example, and have them breed to produce children much more likely to excel at running. Obviously, there are ethical quandaries that make such a task problematic, such as taking into consideration the wishes of the parents involved and the desires of the child, but one wouldn't need to kill everyone bad at running to produce such a child. Like I said, with gentle care it could have been used as a tool to guide people with genetic diseases or specific risk to pass on debilitating diseases. What if you knew you could pass on schizophrenia or Alzheimer's? Wouldn't you want to know and to choose not to bring a child into the world suffering from a terrible disease its entire life? How about the future where we can screen for these diseases and use something like a retrovirus to correct such diseases before the activate? It's the same thing. Eugenics doesn't have to mean killing or sterilizing anyone or anything with a disease, undesirable traits, or anyone of a specific race. Those were choice made by ideologues with horrific bents, not inherent to eugenics itself.
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