Has eugenics got a role to play in the future development of humanity?
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Eugenics has a bad press because nasty right wing dictators have attempted to use it to "perfect the race". However, the same science could be used to eliminate certain conditions that limit human lives.
Is there a moral case for using eugenics to banish disease or is it too dangerous a tool that would always be subject to abuse by unscrupulous racists and other nasty types?
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This topic was started by Thoralby on May 16th, 2008. 11 grupies have voted on one or more of the 3 answers.
Tags: ethics, genetics, health, life, morality, morals, people, philosophy, religion, society
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Eugenics has bad press for many reasons.
not just because the right wing nuts.
you can also add a whole list made of every major
figure that contributed to the modern
so-called "progressive" and socialist movements.
I am amazed at how fast technology has progressed in the past 100 years.
Everything points to humans taking complete control of their existence, both physically and mentally.
If this progresses... eventually humans will be designing themselves. The indications are here. Breast, calf, butt, implants. Braces, plastic surgery, artificial limbs and organs.
It would be like a real time "Roll Playing/Adventure Game" where you design your character.
Making one's own mind up as an adult is less ethically suspect that someone else deciding to terminate another's existence. But even os, we can see that body shaping and surgery is defined by fahion and someone else's idea of what is beautiful or handsome. Imagine all those people who decided to have a neat, tip tilted nose in the eighties who were the height of fashion and now find themselves with an unfashionable nose now adn no spare nose flesh left to have a re-tread. Shame.