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This is a reverse straw man argument [0]. You present your position as something easy to defend (good birth, choice of mates, good diet, etc.), even though some parts of it (forced sterilizations, genocide, etc.) are difficult or impossible to defend.
It is like saying that if I one is in favor of medicine, they are in favor of the human vivisection and lobotomy. We can (and often - need to be) selective.
I don’t argue for every kind if eugenics. Yes, a lot of it were atrocious. And I am against that as well. Yet, I guess you are in favor of things we already do (mentioned in my previous comment).
So, I don't use the word eugenics on its own. UNLESS someone says, "oh, this is eugenics" - as a catch-all argument against a thing. For example, the Polish government banned abortions in most cases, including serious fetal defects. It used to be one of a few exceptions, among the mother's health or life being in immediate danger. The government phrased it as "a ban on eugenic abortions". Yes, by all means, these abortions are eugenic - so to argue otherwise would be dishonest. Yet, this is one of the cases where the majority of the population (even in a religiously conservative country such as Poland) would be in favor.
Here's a definition from a commonly cited online dictionary of American English:
> eugenics
> : the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population's genetic composition
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics#dictiona...
Here's another definition from the Oxford Dictionary of English Third Edition:
> eugenics | juːˈdʒɛnɪks |
> plural noun [treated as singular]
> the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups.
You are attempting to equivocate heinous racist ideology with 'natural cause'.
EDIT: those defending eugenics without engaging in dialog, by downvoting, are showing their real mettle. Eugenics dogma must die. NONE of you are qualified to make the call.. every single one of you could be qualified for the cull.