For me “How long could I get away with driving like an ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE all the time before I lost my licence or had an accident.” Speed limits, red lights, stop signs… forget them all. Every day I have to drive sensibly and obey the law because without my licence I dont have a job, and every day I see at least one person driving like an absolute moron and I wonder…

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    Eugenics taken to their logical conclusion.

    As the parent of a child on the spectrum that is very aware of what such practices would mean for him, I would never agree with it in real life. But I do have a fascination with what we could do if we just said the hell with ethics and started trying to breed “perfect” people.

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      The movie gattaca does this well. No murder or cleansing. But you can have a natural birth or IVF with the Impurities stripped out. “The best of you.”

      “Dirty” people were limited to shit like janitors and all high paying jobs would sneak a test in to filter out anyone “un-pure”

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      Like, ok, let’s try to breed the perfect person–fine. But do we have to kill everyone else? Why is genocide seemingly always on the agenda? Lol

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        Eugenics doesn’t mean killing anyone, just improve the genetic qualities of humans.

        You could do selective breeding, incentivized breeding (entice the right candidates with whatever) ,gene manipulations, etc…

        But I understand that proponents of eugenics usually have extreme right wing views, and why you would come to that conclusion.