Eugenics Breeding for a better World !

1. Eugenics Breeding for a better World!

2. The eleventh edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica defines eugenics as "the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity.“ The word is from a Greek word that means "wellborn."

3. Sparta was a militarist state, and emphasis on military fitness. Shortly after birth, the child was brought before the Gerousia who decided whether it was to be reared or not. If they considered it "puny and deformed", the baby was thrown into a chasm on Mount Taygetos.

4. Here's the argument, in a nutshell: • Human intelligence is largely hereditary. 2. Civilization depends totally upon innate intelligence. Without innate intelligence, civilization would never have been created. When intelligence declines, so does civilization. 3. The higher the level of civilization, the better off the population. Civilization is not an either-or proposition. Rather, it's a matter of degree, and each degree, up or down, affects the well-being of every citizen. 4. At the present time, we are evolving to become less intelligent with each new generation. Why is this happening? Simple: the least-intelligent people are having the most children. 5. Unless we halt or reverse this trend, our civilization will invariably decline. Any decline in civilization produces a commensurate increase in the collective "misery quotient."

5. Supporters of eugenics seek to change the human race through artificial selection, the controlled breeding of people who have certain physical characteristics or mental abilities. The high birth rate of the poor is a threat to civilization

6. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by the scientist Francis Galton, who, influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, advocated that “the more suitable races should have a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.” Social Darwinism meant that life for humans in society was ruled by “survival of the fittest,” helped advance eugenics into serious scientific study.

7. Carnegie Institution eugenic scientists cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with Germany's eugenicists. In Mein Kampf, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. "There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States."

8. Even the US Supreme Court endorsed eugenics. In its infamous 1927 decision, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

9. This decision opened the floodgates for thousands to be coercively sterilized or otherwise persecuted as subhuman. Years later, the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials quoted the Supreme Court’s words in their own defense.

10. They were all bent on breeding a eugenically superior race, just as agronomists would breed better strains of corn. The plan was to wipe away the reproductive capability of the weak and inferior. Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were coercively sterilized — legally.

11. Its purpose was to tip the balance of the U.S. population in favor of northern and western Europeans, at the expense of western and eastern Europeans, Italians, Jews, Slavs, Homosexuals, gypsies and other supposedly dysgenic groups.

12. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, two ardent supporters of eugenics, have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century.

13. The eugenics era in America is a blot on our history that seems to have been painted in disappearing ink, omitted from the typical school's history curriculum and not stamped in the consciousness of our emerging scientists, legislators, and health professionals.