🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:30:39 +1100, Sky Rider <ODPS@CyberScriber.com>
wrote:

>dani,
>
>
>> >Hitler would be proud of you....
>>
>> Give it a rest Chris, the tune is getting boring
>
>ha!
>
>..... the way this kid rambles on about eugenics... even as a "joke" makes it
>clear he sees value in it....


He wouldn't be the first  nor the last
There are quite a few people who think the idea has merit, many of
them leaders in their fields
And judging from Sue's post yesterday about neutering violent
offenders so does she.....tho im thinking she doesn't realise it.

While on the point of eugenics in German society, it was around long
before Hitler came to power. 
Dr Alfred Ploetz founded the  Archives of Race-Theory and Social
Biology in 1904 and the German Society of Racial Hygiene in 1905
By the 1920s various German textbooks incorporated ideas of heredity
and racial hygiene, and German professors were participating in the
international eugenics movement

There was a big push towards eugenics  in the early part of the
century, `Negative eugenics' utilized marriage restriction,
sterilization, or custodial commitment of those thought to have
unwanted characteristics. `Positive eugenics' tried to encourage the
population perceived as the "best and brightest" to have more
offspring.

In a way we are still practicing eugenics today, every time a child is
aborted due to mental retardation or some other deficiency or every
time we ustilise gene therapy we are in some form using the theory of
eugenics 




danielle