Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Is eugenics returning? | Kári Stefánsson, Jacob Appel, Rebecca Bennett and Simon Baron-Cohen" video.

  1. No such thing as "good for the species".
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  2. If we had kept sterilizing violent criminals the world would certainly be better now.
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  3. I'd rather be sterilized than imprisoned and the state can already imprison me for the rest of my life. Random couples can already decide who lives. Why should they have arbitrary say over another being and the future of the world?
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  4.  @agapeten  >the genes we improve might not be the genese needed in the next stage of mankind Lol, what are you doing to maintain all possible genes? This is completely insincere concern trolling.
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  5. Firstly you should ask yourself whether you would want to be in the position of the child. If not, then it's already pretty clear that the child shouldn't be born). Then it's about how much you can optimize at what cost: Optimize both in the sense of personal happiness and usefulness for others. For example I'm not sure ppl with Down Syndrome are necessarily a net negative. Perhaps they tend to be more happy, then it would be more moral to bring people with Down Syndrome into the world than people without (as long as the number doesn't affect technological progress).
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  6. It would already be great just to sterilize violent criminals and to give MDMA to smart people.
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  7. And why should parents decide that? We have child protective services and laws on the environment, but you can bring into the world/kill individuals as you please?
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