Re: Eugenics
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dragonystic,
how about any trait having to be very widely accepted to be valued?
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still all sorts of problems would remain.
for one, lets say we all agreed that intelligence is good to select for. all we will in fact accomplish is changing the definitions for those we consider 'stupid' and 'smart.' Compared to our early ancestors, even the dumbest people today are relative genuises. If we bump up the overall intelligence through this selection process, there still will be bottom dwellers. They will just be smarter than our current bottom dwellers. And so groups of marginalized people will forever exist.
and still we would also have the problem of how desirable traits are selected for. there is no way around it, this would have to involve either a) stopping certain people from breeding or b) genetically altering the children born of 'undesirable' parents.
this alone is enough to disqualify eugenics as something a civilized society should consider.
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