[Waking Times]: Eugenics is an attempt to produce genetically desirable children and to terminate the lives of those considered to be genetically inferior. Elements of eugenics exist everywhere. For example, when given the choice, people produce children with partners whom they find attractive. Part of them hopes that those attractive qualities will manifest in the offspring. A more extreme form is infanticide: killing children usually because of physical or mental deformity; a practice as old as humanity.1 In Ancient Greece, Plato and Socrates (c. 470-399 BCE) suggested ways of breeding to promote the superior traits of the elite, as sickly infants were deliberately left to die of exposure.2
Today,
there is a sensible and ethical side of what is often called eugenics.
Examples include disabled children having operations to save their lives
and individuals with learning difficulties asking for sterilisation
because they can’t manage contraception and don’t want children. But
institutions like the state, prisons, and medical facilities, as well as
privileged elites, use eugenics as a way of trying to exterminate the
elements of society whom they consider to be a burden. What started out
as selective breeding and infanticide has today developed into forced
sterilisation and genetic editing to produce “designer babies.” This
thinking also informs certain depopulation agendas...<<<Read More>>>...
