• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    Eugenics isn’t inherently bad. If you prefer dating humans without genetic defects, congratulations; you’re a eugenicist.

    Do you prefer blondes or brown hair? You’re preferring genes again! Don’t like people with potato bodies? There you go preferring genes…

    Find out your fetus has a genetic defect and won’t live past five even if you birth them, so you abort? Cheer on genetic therapies that could solve such issues? Congratulations, you’ve practiced eugenics!!

    Eugenics itself is not bad. It’s the racist fuck desire to want to “cleanse” the “race” of humanity that’s bad.

    • Viceversa@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      If you prefer dating humans without genetic defects, congratulations; you’re a eugenicist.

      Colloquially eugenics refers not to personal preferences, but to collective imperatives, as far as I know.