No. Eugenics is race theory as much as it’s anything scientific. It was about making sure the “correct” races had children. I don’t know what the name this is in science but Eugenics isn’t about making kids healthier, it’s about making them whiter.
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scutiger@lemmy.world 5 months agoIt’s still eugenics, you just used more words to describe it.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Patches@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No that’s literally what it means:
The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition
Science that deals with the improvement of inherited qualities of a race or breed and especially of human beings
The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
But this isn’t selective breeding, unless you twist the definition to the point where it means something wholly different. If I understand right, this is just screening embryos for potential health problems.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If this is indeed like GATTACA selecting specific embryos after fertilization is not really selective breeding. Selective breeding is picking the parents. This is picking the children. You could do both but it didn’t seem like that is what was happening. I could still see this likely leading to problems genetically not dissimilar to problems with inbreeding. Genetic diversity requires the randomness of life to be useful long term.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did you miss where they do that by sterilization? And qualities of a race or breed?
Do you speak English? Is this a translation error?
sepulcher@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
You specifically left out the “a science” part, which is also part of the “kids’” definition for eugenics.
eugenics noun eu·gen·ics yu̇-ˈjen-iks : a science that deals with the improvement of inherited qualities of a race or breed and especially of human beings
Removing the “a” from the beginning completely changes the meaning of the word, which is why you did it.
Shame.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m not native speaker so please excuse my stupid question. How does the “a” change the meaning? My language doesn’t even have articles so I have troubles with using them or understanding such nuances.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 months ago
Eugenics isn’t inherently bad, but humans suck and will make it bad.