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To: lbryce

You are right, the article presents things that are - dreadful.

The Nazis certainly drew inspiration from her beliefs and work. In large part, that was the blueprint for mass sterilizations as carried out by most socialist states, land many other “non-socialist” states as well, that had all these “progressive” views, around the world.


11 posted on 02/16/2015 9:13:04 PM PST by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: alloysteel
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes (Republican) in Buck v. Bell: 1927

14 posted on 02/16/2015 11:51:09 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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