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Eugenicism, also called Galtonianism, is a political ideology which seeks to shape public policy in accordance with the field of eugenics. Eugenics is a now discredited field of science (pseudoscience) which claims to be the 'study of good genes'. Eugenics takes influence from the Darwinian theory of evolution, which states that organisms develop to better suit a given environment through the gradual dying of organisms that are unsuited to the environment before they can reproduce and applies them to Humans; this is done by selecting traits which are 'desirable' and artificially adjusting the environment to either maximize the reproduction of those with those traits (positive eugenics) or minimizing the reproduction of those with undesirable traits (negative eugenics).

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History

Proto-Eugenics

Early forms of Eugenics were practiced for millennia, with some cultures (such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Athens, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Sparta, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Rome) letting children who were considered to be defect be killed (infanticide). The philosopher Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Plato advocated for the state to control the reproduction of human beings.[2][3]

19th and early 20th Century

The term 'Eugenics' and 'Dysgenics' were coined by the English polymath Sir Francis Galton in the 1860's after reading Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.[1]

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nazi Eugenics

Nazi eugenics refers to the social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breeding of "Nordic" or "Aryan" traits at its center.


Those targeted for destruction under Nazi eugenics policies were largely people living in private and state-operated institutions. They included prisoners, degenerates, dissidents, and people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities- people who were considered to be feeble-minded:

  • Epileptic
  • Schizophrenic
  • Manic-depressive (now known as bipolar)
  • Cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy
  • Deaf and/or blind
  • Homosexual or "transvestites" (intersex and transgender people)
  • Anyone else considered to be idle, insane, and/or weak as per "feeblemindedness"

All of these were targeted for elimination from the chain of heredity.

Discrediting

Early criticism of eugenics came from the American sociologist Lester Frank Ward,[5] the English writer Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination G.K. Chesterton,[6] German-American anthropologist Franz Boas,[7] and the Scottish physician Halliday Sutherland.[8] In 1930 was officially condemned by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Casti Connubii[9]

Nonetheless, major action against eugenics was mainly taken only after the Second World War.

Contemporary Eugenics

With the development of technologies which allow for more effective forms of genetic engineering the interest in the revival of eugenics has picked up steam in certain circles, including some Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination transhumanist circles. Eugenics was defended by the New Zealand professor of ethics Nicholas Agar in the form of what he called Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 'liberal eugenics' in his book of the same title.[10] Liberal eugenics (also called New Eugenics) unlike historical eugenics seeks to involve parents themselves in the process of eugenics, seeking to respect the parent's right to choose what genetic features they deem desirable for their children and to ignore the advice of eugenicists.[11]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Correspondance between Charles Darwin and Francis Galton
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Republic, Book 6, Plato
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eugenics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. ↑ Project 100,000
  5. ↑ Eugenics, Euthenics and Eudemics by Lester F. Ward
  6. ↑ Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton
  7. ↑ Eugenics by Franz Boas
  8. ↑ Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland
  9. ↑ Casti connubii by Pope Pius XI: Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves. Among whom we must mention in the first place infants hidden in the mother's womb. And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them, but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from earth to Heaven.
  10. ↑ Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Advancement by Nicholas Agar
  11. ↑ Defending Eugenics by Jonathan Anomaly

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