Posted by
vikingmother on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:00:02 PM
Richard Dawkins, noted scientist and semi-theologian of the evolution without a designer ideology, wants us "60 years after Hitler's death" to rescuscitate EUGENICS.What IS Eugenics? It was a concept created by another brilliant scientist, the 19th century Sir Francis Galton. (Search the NET under his name....Lots of stuff there!)
Eugenics is, (in my words) the BREEDCOW way to "improve" the human race. Breed smart, strong people together to get a "better stock of humans".
Dawkins says concerning eugenics.....
"...I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons."
http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1031440.0.eugenics_may_not_be_bad.php Today, eugenics could be applied to emerging genetic technology. Soon, we may be able to cherry pick what traits our unborn child will form and bring into the world.
So what's the harm in that concept? Why not design a stronger race?
Genetics can do wonderful things for us. But if we focus on genetics as a way to breed a "superkid" ---here might the old Nazis laugh. The Nazis carried eugenics from British and American practitioners to the next logical level....(in eugenics practice only, not in a fully ethical world) .
The Nazis worked to breed "superkids" in various ways. Look up "lebensborn" (children bred by the Nazis), as just one of many examples. Look up an early "geneticist" Dr Josef Mengele.
So I imagine a maybe 80 year old aged Nazi reading Dawkins' comment about reviving engenics..in the news. So might the aged Nazi think Hitler vindicated, as he reads that the so called "free world" is picking up the idea of genetically improving the race.---a concept forcibly practiced by the Nazis and, after WWII, rejected by the rest of the world, but now...maybe eugenics is being sneaked back into the ideological "fold".
. People think Hitler & his nasty racial ideology--of extreme eugenics (which took genetics to an amoral excess) is defeated But the old Nazi laughs. Eugenics never stays small. It grows.
Eugenics will expand outwards
(i.e. get rid of the "unfit") We are not only going for the great clarinet, oboe, piano playing kid here, we are going for the "superkid". And those preborn (or maybe newborn??? who don't make the "cut" will be ...cut.
The ideology of "eugenics" i.e. preaching & teaching the concept of race "purification" will make it a pseudo moral imperative to "kill off" the weak, or so called unfit.
(Would a kid with no musical sense and a tin ear qualify as unfit?)
...Just search the Net to see Galton's theory (eugenics) in its more ethically dubious aspects being...slowly resuscitated and revived.
So...we are all merely biology? Are we just a herd of cows where our intrinsic value is how pretty & how smart & how strong we are?
Racist David Duke (if not a Nazi, surely a "fellow traveler" on the white supremacy path) on his website (which I refuse to link to....you can find it) also lauds eugenics and laments the race equality or eglatarian concepts many of us hold to.
Those old Nazis laugh on.