Eugenics- For or Against?

[Paranormal Inquirer]

John, if the topic of Hitler comes up again, you might toss Dor Yeshorim back at them.

Thanks, will do.

 

[Paranormal Inquirer]

My 5 dollars says that this is Jerome on a different IP!

Who?

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

There's some web presence of Shannon's work, but I'll have to wait until I get home before I start clicking on links and checking it out. Thanks for providing the title.

Athon, we go back a long way so I won't bore you with my time/bandwidth/concerns about taking links at work/blah blah, but I might not get to check out web comments on Shannon until it's the weekend here in the U.S., but I will.

I'm not an expert or particularly studied in this area, but as I evidenced above and as John's recent replies evidence, it' smells to me that his contrarian classmates are approaching the subject from an atheist/believer or Crevo standpoint rather than an objective standpoint.

For readers and lurkers, however you feel about the more egregious forms of Eugenics like genocide, forced sterilization or anti-micengination laws, the issue isn't black and white, but is very much on a gray scale. Take Toby's pragamatic comments for example. He's a beloved member of the forum who would make a great parent for a non-autistic child, but him trying to raise an autistic child - or any special needs child himself would be a compounding of issues any parent faces with their children. I, personally, would never begrudge him the right to genetically screen any of his potential progeny.

 

[athon]

Athon, we go back a long way so I won't bore you with my time/bandwidth/concerns about taking links at work/blah blah, but I might not get to check out web comments on Shannon until it's the weekend here in the U.S., but I will.

No, that's cool with me. I'm interested in sitting and having a talk with my coworker on the topic. She did postgrad studies on the topic (we're both big science history geeks), as I understand it.

I'm not an expert or particularly studied in this area, but as I evidenced above and as John's recent replies evidence, it' smells to me that his contrarian classmates are approaching the subject from an atheist/believer or Crevo standpoint rather than an objective standpoint.

For readers and lurkers, however you feel about the more egregious forms of Eugenics like genocide, forced sterilization or anti-micengination laws, the issue isn't black and white, but is very much on a gray scale. Take Toby's pragamatic comments for example. He's a beloved member of the forum who would make a great parent for a non-autistic child, but him trying to raise an autistic child - or any special needs child himself would be a compounding of issues any parent faces with their children. I, personally, would never begrudge him the right to genetically screen any of his potential progeny.

Very true. And definition again comes into it - most people would only define eugenics by the extremes of sterilisation and abortion, however wouldn't consider perhaps genetic screening of an obviously debilitating illness to be included by the term.

Athon