They ruined eugenics. Now eugenics is synonymous with racism, but it didn't start out that way. It's inventor, Francis Galton, wasn't racist. He just believed eugenics could be used to ensure the future health of the nation. But then racist nazis, who believed in a load of racial pseudoscience (that the white race were superior in every way), hijacked eugenics for their own idiotic goals.
Then we live in the Gatacca world.
Interesting as fuck in theory,but more of a story idea than a moral decision.
What is immoral about eugenics?
Allowing parental choice about the genetic makeup of their children may lead to the creation of a genetic “overclass” with unfair advantages over those who parents did not or could not afford to endow them with the right biological dispositions and traits.
Well I was thinking more about just preventing those with inheritable diseases from having children, rather than using genetics to select for positive traits in your children. But even so, I think Gattaca does more as an argument for eugenics than against it. The parents in that film are initially against eugenics because of some hippie belief that it's better to conceive naturally, and it's only when their child is given a life expectancy of 30 years that they realise it was wrong for them to play dice with someone's health and future just because of their own vague principles.
That might happen initially where only rich people are able to afford it, but then that's always the case with everything. Eventually it'd become affordable to middle-class people, and then to everyone.
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They ruined eugenics. Now eugenics is synonymous with racism, but it didn't start out that way. It's inventor, Francis Galton, wasn't racist. He just believed eugenics could be used to ensure the future health of the nation. But then racist nazis, who believed in a load of racial pseudoscience (that the white race were superior in every way), hijacked eugenics for their own idiotic goals.
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Then we live in the Gatacca world.
Interesting as fuck in theory,but more of a story idea than a moral decision.
What is immoral about eugenics?
Allowing parental choice about the genetic makeup of their children may lead to the creation of a genetic “overclass” with unfair advantages over those who parents did not or could not afford to endow them with the right biological dispositions and traits.
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Well I was thinking more about just preventing those with inheritable diseases from having children, rather than using genetics to select for positive traits in your children. But even so, I think Gattaca does more as an argument for eugenics than against it. The parents in that film are initially against eugenics because of some hippie belief that it's better to conceive naturally, and it's only when their child is given a life expectancy of 30 years that they realise it was wrong for them to play dice with someone's health and future just because of their own vague principles.
That might happen initially where only rich people are able to afford it, but then that's always the case with everything. Eventually it'd become affordable to middle-class people, and then to everyone.