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To: RegulatorCountry
certain scientific theories? Everything I've read points to science having run, screaming, away from eugenics

Science describes processes. Eugenics is a goal -- a value judgement. Surely you can't pretend you don't know the difference.

620 posted on 08/24/2006 12:56:08 PM PDT by Dracian
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To: Dracian

Eugenics is the study of attempting to improve the human race by selective breeding; its rationale is to remove bad or deleterious genes from the population. Scientific racism attempted to identify good or beneficial genes, as well as bad or deleterious genes, based upon human racial characteristics. So, eugenics was hardly a goal, it is a process, a means to an end. And, that end was, in German, "Hoherentwicklung," a higher state of evolution.


625 posted on 08/24/2006 1:10:21 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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