> exert some level of control over the genetics of their offspring
Isn’t that what choosing a partner to start a family with does?
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.