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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to Dogs@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

Definitely a good initiative

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Definitely a good initiative

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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to Dogs@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago
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    Imagine what people would do if they were allowed to selectively breed humans

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      The Spanish Habsburgs.

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        lol

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      That’s just called eugenics

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      Don’t sperm banks offer selective sperm choices based on intelligence and physical fitness?

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        There’s ZERO regulations in that industry, they can say whatever

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          One of the “most prolific” sperm donors in Britain is a neo-Nazi. His sperm has been used to bring about over 140 births, but he also spends his free time planning “lone wolf” attacks.

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      People on 4chan were talking about that sort of thing at least 15 years ago. I think it was on /tg/, if I remember. They were also much more concerned with the trolling/ethical thought of breeding for the brain. What if you bred someone who only had the thought of serving a master?

      I think that’s enough evidence for me that selective breeding is horribly fucked in its outcome no matter the original aims, and the closest we should come is eliminating the ‘will kill you’ diseases.

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        What if curing cancer resulted in the creation of a slave cast. Sounds like a pretty good star trek episode

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          I guess that movie is called Elysium.

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            At this point I’m wondering if our idiot overlords are using these fantasies as a guide rather than a warning

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      There are some sci fi stories about this. They are… not pretty.

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        I will follow the Kwisatz Haderach without hesitation.

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        We as a species spent so, so long learning the painful lesson that eugenics is an awful idea. Can we please not relitigate it? That is, can we please not shift the Overton window back to the ideology that directly led to and inspired the Holocaust?

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          Thank you

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            Sorry to necro this, but by your very own definition, you should be neutered. Wishing to neuter people or conduct eugenicist programs is causing physical and emotional harm to people.

            Seeing as you want this to be a blanket policy, the intent to repeat is given. Your own definition makes your policies and your ideals not just radical, but amoral within this framework.

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        Oh sure, having a government body decide who’s fit or not for reproduction. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that. /S

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          True, the design I believe in would only work if people like me would be in control, due to the nature of worldviews being unique to the individual. And the moment hands change over once, is the moment the laws get skewed by the worldview of the next group. I would restrict those who threaten humanity’s progress, who would refuse to educate or vaccinate a child, who would indoctrinate from birth into their gated world. The next person would restrict queerfolk like me. And the next would try to filter humanity into an Aryan race of purebloods.

          The theory is there. The practice is improbable. But the lack of practice results in the Chinese, Russian or American governments and their followers. Those who would, and do, filter us out.

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        Be the change you want to see in the world

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        Lead by example!

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