Eugenics

This topic has been contensious for many years long before Hitler used it to bring mass destruction to Europe.

Eugenics was first properly discussed by Sir Francis Galton the cousin of Charles Darwin who proposed people be selectively bred like animals. It was alot more common than is publicly known and in certain provinces in Canada it remained until the 1970s. The majority of Western European Nations had a sterilization programme at some point in their history, normally of the mentally retarded or defficient.

Can this be considered bad? It can be argued that a programme that is trying to better the Human race and prolongue good traits that will be useful in the future or bring about healthy offspring. On the other hand

who gets to decide what are good traits and which we can do without? It is for this reason I would object to any proposed eugenics programmes. That and the examples of people that Eugenics would discard that have proved to make a big difference in the world like Stephen Hawkins.

Eugenics in principle is an attractive idea for those that would consider themselves worthy of breeding but unfortunately I have yet to find someone that considers themselves unfit for procreation.