Re: Eugenics
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2.) It is illogical. It is based on assumptions that are at best misguided.
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Care to explain?
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3.) It is impractical. Because enforcing it means totalitarity, which has a tendency to both fail spectacularly and be very expensive.
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If that is how you define totalitarity, we already live in one. We are definitely not free to do anything we want.
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4.) It has severe implications. Eugenics in the past has led to some fairly bad political practices and some pretty stupid beliefs.
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I think these would be quite easy to avoid if some kind of international eugenics program were started and planned well. The goals are so long term, that spending a lot of time in discussion and planning would be insignificant.
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5.) It is biased. Eugenics is usually not a result of some sound scientific insight but more a confirmation of some naive prejudice.
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I don't claim to know much about genetics, please explain why the prejudices are naive.
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6.) It doesn't solve the problem it pretends to solve. You still end up with someone deciding who gets to reproduce based on partially subjective criteria.
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The criteria could be chosen democratically, and then let a computer program count the people that are good enough based on the criteria. It would not necessarily need to be told to people whether they are considered good enough or not.
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7.) It makes hazy assumptions. Eugenics assumes that the answer to a rather complex problem lies in only one place.
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I really don't know why you think eugenics would assume that.
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8.) It isn't realistic. Eugenics even if we assumed it had no flaws would only work in an completely idealistic setting.
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Why? If you mean that religious fanatics (and their followers) would oppose, I think we should not give up. I mean, seriously, Christianity is such a joke, and a bad one, why would we let it ruin the future of humanity (and other animals) without a good try?
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It is most ways like the 'benevolent dictator' idea.
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In what ways (in addition to the bias thing)?
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