On some level it might seem “good”, but it was also monstrous.
I don’t know about Iceland, but I do know the attempt to rid the world of undesirables continues to this day. It’s just being implemented in a slightly more humane/devious way and with greater patience.
Instead of killing the poor, stupid and illiterate... they simply convince them to kill their own babies through abortion.
Prenatal screening is becoming commonplace to rid the world of down syndrome people and others with defects before they are born to avoid the not so popular gas chambers the Nazi’s used after they were born.
The world is no different, nothing has changed, each generation thinks it is morally superior to the last which in actuality is simply does the same things in a different way.