Chinese eugenics

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9 points·allenwlee··5 comments

Paranoid. There are more chances of the one child policy being canceled than any eugenics program being completed any time soon.

Another reason that this is paranoid is that under the current circumstances there's a significantly higher chance that the United States and Europe will crumble on their own than being attacked by eugenically enhanced Chinese soldiers.

Third, the interest that the Chinese show for gene sequencing are only a symptom of the greater Asian traditions of match-making and ultimately disease prevention (just as everyone else is interested in preventing genetically transmissible diseases).

Fourth, people like her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2XAWcs7HbM

China's one child policy has had debatable effect and a number of unintended side effects. If China wants smart people to reproduce more, then skewing the population towards a male majority is only going to work through repression of large numbers of men who no longer have hopes of reproducing.

The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression (that hardly works, they'll rather run revolutions) - it's simply to pack them in colorful uniforms and march them to the neighboring tribe to look for mates and loot or die trying, both options "solve" the problem.

> The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression

Compulsory military service is often defacto slavery. It's an even more insidious form of repression. And if the populace is manipulated into wanting to go to war, that's worse.

Totally chilling, both with respect to the Chinese policy and this response to it. Our values should be optimized for freedom, democracy and diversity.

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