Prolife Arson Business As Usual

Its all got to do with eugenics.



Eugenics:

the study and use of selective breeding to improve a species over a number of generations.


Sir francis galton (1822-1911) was an english scientist who studied heredity and intelligence. He was the person who coined the word eugenics, using greek words to express what was originally a greek concept.

Eugenics is a term derived from the greek language and literally means

"well born"

its a well know british idea that one is "well bread" an assumption from the darwin therory of natural selection.



The initial principle defined by galton was directly connected with the teaching and work of darwin. According to darwin, the mechanisms of natural selection are thwarted by human civilization. One of the objectives of civilizations is to help the underprivileged, and this opposes the natural selection responsible for extinction of the weakest.

Some eugenists argue that this means there will be an increasing number of people who would have normally been eliminated through natural selection. They thus propose to promote actions that balance the effects of natural selection loss. This basic principle has inspired numerous and diverse philosophies, scientific and pseudoscientific theories and social practices such as abortion.

Selective reproduction

in modern usage, "eugenics" more commonly refers to human selective reproduction with the intent to create children with desirable traits, especially those that best meet some racial or societal ideal, as well as the elimination of people with undesirable traits.

Nazi germany under adolf hitler was infamous for its eugenics program, which attempted to maintain a "pure" german race. Among other acts, the nazis performed extensive, often cruel, experimentation on live human beings to test their genetic theories. During the 1930s and 1940s, the nazi regime sterilized tens of thousands of people who they viewed as mentally unfit. Most of these would later be killed by the nazis during the war.

The nation that had the second largest eugenics movement was the .U.S.A. Beginning with connecticut in 1896, many states enacted marriage laws with eugenic criteria, prohibiting anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from marrying.

Eugenic considerations also lay behind the adoption of incest laws in much of the .U.S.A some states also practiced sterilization of "imbeciles" for much of the 20th century. The us supreme court ruled in 1927 that the state of virginia could sterilize those it thought unfit. Over the period when eugenics was in place, more than 100,000 people were forcibly sterilized. Eugenics also persisted longer in the .U.S than in any other country, with virginia only halting its sterilizations in 1979.

Worldwide practice

almost all western nations adopted some eugenics legislation, with the notable exception of britain. Sweden forcibly sterilized "unfits" as part of a eugenics program over a 40-year period. Similar incidents occurred in canada, australia, norway, finland, estonia and iceland for people the government declared to be mentally deficient.

Various authors, notably stephen jay gould, have repeatedly asserted that restrictions on immigration passed in the us during the 1920s (which were overhauled in 1965) were motivated by the goals of eugenics, in particular a desire to exclude inferior races from the national gene pool. However, several people—in particular franz samelson, mark snyderman and richard herrnstein—examined the records of the congressional debates over immigration policy and found that in fact congress gave virtually no consideration to these factors. Rather, they found that the restrictions were motivated primarily by a desire to maintain .U.S cultural integrity against a heavy influx of foreigners.

Gene therapy is currently directed towards changing the genetic makeup of the cells in the body of an individual only (somatic gene therapy).



Germline gene therapy which would change the genetic makeup of the next generation has obvious eugenics implications. But there has nevertheless been calls for gene therapy on the unborn and on human embryos, all on the back of the publicity generated by the human genome project.

What ardulous huxley envisoned in the early 1900's in his book "brave new world" we are today seeing the steady creation of his "eutopian" society

never truer words were ever spoken than

"to me the censorship shows that they are afraid, should society know the truth would society choose the choice that the goverment want them to?

I think not."