Re: Eugenics
Well one could argue that it depends how you measure success and benefit. For some people measuring the long-term success of the human race cannot preclude morality.
However, this is also no perfect way to measure intelligence and it is perhaps not inconceivable that people with lower IQs (one candidate intelligence metric) correlate better with other human qualities which have been key to our survivial. Even if measuring intelligence is a practical rather than theoretical boundary it is still a stumbling block - although it could be theoretical if all the ingredients of mankind's recipe for success were sprinkled all the cross sections.
It certainly appears, though, our short-termist goal-seeking society is reversing evolution - encouraging, in general, bright driven people not to procreate, and through the welfare state, those less so too reproduce.
That said I (ignorantly) agree that eugenics could in theory benefit mankind.
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