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Agreed.. I mean if you even support someone choosing a partner because they are sexually attractive is that not a form of eugenics?

Facial symmetry is correlated with genetic health.. and so on..

All parents care about "improving the genetic quality of their children".

The problem isn't the word 'eugenics' but the kind of society people create when they support it.

It's a fact of life that attractive people attract. Eugenics is when you 'help the process along' and the ramifications of that are pretty creepy.

No, not necessarily because sexual attraction is subjective and only a proxy for objective genetic fitness.

It is entirely possible that the kind of person that another finds sexually attractive is sterile or grossly deficient in some other non-obvious way.