Posted on 09/29/2003 4:44:06 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
A DANISH academic has sparked an uproar by calling for state measures to encourage childbearing among intelligent people but to dissuade those with low intellectual ability, to create what he called a better Danish society.
Helmuth Nyborg, a well-known psychology professor at the University of Aarhus who specialises in intelligence research, said it was time to "abandon the politically correct" and to practice selection in order to "improve the coming generations and avoid degenerates in the population", in comments this weekend that have been widely reported on national television and the country's main newspapers.
"I'm aware that my proposal breaks a taboo that dates back more than half a century, since Hitler's Aryan race program, and it is very controversial," he said.
"But the debate has to be raised now because the trend is cause for concern in Denmark, where we have an increasing number of problem kids," he said.
His proposals triggered outrage among many politicians and experts, including Integration Minister Bertel Haarder, who said Nyborg's suggestions were "against all moral principles".
But he said statistics show that women with lower educations have more children than highly educated women, who tend to spend more time studying and working before starting a family.
Nyborg suggested that highly educated women could have their workloads reduced while less intelligent parents could be paid to not have children.
"It's easy to make associations to Hitler and Nazism, as my critics do. But this has nothing to do with Nazism. Hitler was not a eugenicist, but an ideologue who abused the program of procreation," he said.
"He didn't want to improve the human race, he wanted to eliminate certain groups such as Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, and he massacred the most intelligent among them," Nyborg said.
Nyborg claimed intelligence was hereditary, and said it was "unfortunate and worrying if parents of lower intelligence bring more children into the world, as is the case today in Denmark, than highly intelligent parents".
"We can already choose to have children or not by doing practical tests in fertility clinics which show whether the fetus has hereditary genetic malformations," he said.
"It's possible to choose the eggs. So why not keep the best ones, in terms of intelligence," he said.
"Between 10 and 20 per cent of the population, who are at the lower echelon of society and who cannot fill in a time sheet at work or who cannot hold down a job or take care of their children, should not have children," he said.
"We are all aware of this problem, but we don't dare talk about it. But we should, for the sake of society and the future, so that we can have productive citizens and not people who need help," he said.
If Hitler's national socialism had been victorious, he would have eventually learned that physical and mental abilities are not nearly as important to his socialist Utopia as people with "pro-socialist" political attitudes.
This author is also definitely a left leaning, elitist attitude, "I know what's best for society", socialist.
Who thinks this guy believes in God?
He's not saying they should kill anybody, or throw anybody into concentration camps . . . Only that incentives and disincentives be offered. What is best for a population, for it to be smarter or dumber?
From what I know about eugenics, that would be a compliment. I did some research on the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century. It was shocking, outrageous and terrifying. The brains behind it were the same ones behind the "peace movement" - the intellectual liberal elites in the Universities. They believed that populations (that is, people) could be manipulated just like a scientific experiment.
This was the root of the social engineering we see today. Except the guys back then took it to extremes. Did you know that the last mandatory sterilization law was not taken off the books until 1974? If you want to be truly offended, check out the information at http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Hitler didn't do anything new. He just went way off the deep end with the 'science' that was already accepted and practiced in the US and elsewhere. The Nazis used what was commonly called the "Indiana Prodecure". (Yes, that Indiana.)
I suppose we can laugh and joke and say, 'Oh, yeah. Sounds good to me'. That is until the court shows up at your door with your mandatory sterilization order in the name of progressive sociology. Eugenics is a road we do not want to travel again.
Conversely, mating only 'select' with select would more quickly shrink the percentage of so-called 'select' gene patterns in the nation.
I hope we don't have to remind any Europeans of what happened to the select breeding in the Royal families of Europe.
Historically, it has been the people who never read Darwin but who just assumed they understood him and then simply recited their own racism and stupidity who have caused all the trouble. Welcome to the club.
Now, for you homework assignment, explain how it is that idiot savants can't pass an IQ test to save their life, but often can't be equaled by anyone in their unique abilities.
Elitism gone wild.
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