> isn't he a eugenicist?
No. Although the term is widely abused and misapplied, so he might fall within whatever definition of eugenicist you're working with.
No. Although the term is widely abused and misapplied, so he might fall within whatever definition of eugenicist you're working with.
Maybe letting people know for what definitions he might qualify?
All societies practice eugenics to some extent, whether in banning relatives from marrying, choosing abortion when the child would have terrible life conditions, or selecting mates based on biological traits like beauty.
From the first paragraph of Wikipedia:
> Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing')[1][2] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population,[3][4] historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior.[5] In recent years, the term has seen a revival in bioethical discussions on the usage of new technologies such as CRISPR and genetic screening, with a heated debate on whether these technologies should be called eugenics or not.[6]
This contention referenced by Wikipedia shows that the debate goes well beyond Nazis. There's no other convenient non-euphemistic word for this concept.
Isn’t that what choosing a partner to start a family with does?
There can be no public sanity regarding anything that was done by people in the wrong side of fresh (historical) memory
Arguably the worst things are completely natural and unconscious.
Natural selection by itself is very brutal, and often slow process, and doesn't always optimize for traits you yourself find desirable.
As far as sexual selection is concerned, it is very often conscious.
In other words, there's nothing inherently wrong about eugenics.
The wrong part is coercing people doing or not doing things.
slippery-sloping the ideas of control very quickly leads to nightmarish scenarios, of course slopes tend not to be slippery just because we fear they may be, but sometimes the slipperiness of a slope will seem not a problem until the right social movement comes along and takes advantage of it, best to be prepared is the pessimist's take.