[willie24]

wow.

what is your goal? i understand the draw for nationalists who want to dominate the world with a super race, and also for people who want an excuse to give their own group more rights than another, but i don't understand how eugenics could "better the world." actually, i guess i don't understand the concept of bettering the world in general. if i'm unhappy, the world goes on unscathed. if the human race is exterminated, the world goes on. if earth explodes and life ceases to exist, it makes no difference to the world. the world can not be said to be "better" or "worse," because it has no emotion or want.

the same is true of "the human race." it can't be better or worse, because it isn't human and doesn't care.

when most people talk about improving the world, i think they probably mean - giving each individual (on average) a better chance to achieve his goals. for philosophical reasons, i personally think this effort is morally unimportant - but i can understand why someone might care about it, and, for the purposes of discussion, am willing to assume that it is a reasonable goal.

if your goal is to increase individual human happiness on average, how will eugenics help achieve that goal? in your answer, recall that life is governed by biology.