<p>What does this mean? Thanks. And I want YOUR definition, not google’s.</p>
<p>immoral .</p>
<p>Applying selective breeding to people. People argue for it to this day, even though the end result is invariably genocide.</p>
<p>Watch the movie Gattaca. That’s eugenics in a nutshell.</p>
<p>Double post.</p>
<p>genetically senseless. eye and hair color has no benefit and should not dictate a specific master race(just an example, i know that not the whole thing). Races adapt to suite their environment so saying there is a master race is like arguing there is a better environment? What standards do you use to measure the best environment? It makes no sense at all.</p>
<p>it’s the thing that gave scientific legitimacy of having a holocaust.</p>
<p>A system for “bettering” the human race by trying to promote desirable traits and eliminating undesirable ones, whatever desirable and undesirable might mean to the person in charge. Or, as wombatsoup said, “applying selective breeding to people.”</p>
<p>Can lead to the forcible killing of the people perceived to have undesirable traits, but that is far from the only way. Forced sterilizations or incentives towards sterilization offered to the people who carry the undesirable trait are also useful, as are forced abortions and incentives towards abortions. Not to mention birth control methods, specially if widely distributed among the population with undesirable trait. One can also encourage or force the people who have the desirable trait to reproduce, perhaps by the use of monetary or other incentives, or perhaps by the use of propaganda and social manipulation which makes it “trendy” to be a person with a desirable trait and lots of children.</p>
<p>Social Darwinism. The idea that only the strongest, smartest, prettiest, wealthiest, “best” humans should survive and propagate.</p>
<p>i just had to do this huge midterm debate type thing on PGD.</p>
<p>i had to talk about eugenics, like the above people said just watch gattaca. haha.</p>
<p>A movement that promotes sterilizing the criminals, mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, etc. of society. Mainly during the early 1900s. Also gained a racist feel to it.</p>