TeeferTiger wrote:Eugenics has NO merit whatsoever and I can't believe you'd even consider it as a good idea. Besides the fact that it's completely unethical, it wouldn't work from a biological POV.
I didn't say it was a good idea, only that it might have some merit - I mean improving the gene pool can't be all bad can it? Look at tomatoes, they have created a plastic, tasteless lookalike - now is that a bad thing.
In the United Kingdom, eugenics never received significant state funding, but it was supported by many prominent figures of different political persuasions before World War I, including: Liberal economists William Beveridge and John Maynard Keynes; Fabian socialists such as Irish author George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Sidney Webb; and Conservatives such as the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour. The influential economist John Maynard Keynes was a prominent supporter of Eugenics, serving as Director of the British Eugenics Society, and writing that eugenics is "the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists".
TeeferTiger wrote:And I'm not saying improving the gene pool isn't a bad thing.. I've seen the film Idiocracy
That's a funny film...if a bit too close to the truth.
Have read the synopsis, will download it and watch it - how very topical when they are about to make school examinations on a par with the old O levels. When you look at the education levels now...............................
TeeferTiger wrote:And I'm not saying improving the gene pool isn't a bad thing.. I've seen the film Idiocracy
That's a funny film...if a bit too close to the truth.
Have read the synopsis, will download it and watch it - how very topical when they are about to make school examinations on a par with the old O levels. When you look at the education levels now...............................
It's funny and worrying at the same time! The film that is.
TeeferTiger wrote:And I'm not saying improving the gene pool isn't a bad thing.. I've seen the film Idiocracy
That's a funny film...if a bit too close to the truth.
Have read the synopsis, will download it and watch it - how very topical when they are about to make school examinations on a par with the old O levels. When you look at the education levels now...............................
It's funny and worrying at the same time! The film that is.
Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups
Six of Nine loves Seven of Nine, together in Electric Dreams.
TeeferTiger wrote:And I'm not saying improving the gene pool isn't a bad thing.. I've seen the film Idiocracy
That's a funny film...if a bit too close to the truth.
Have read the synopsis, will download it and watch it - how very topical when they are about to make school examinations on a par with the old O levels. When you look at the education levels now...............................
It's funny and worrying at the same time! The film that is.
Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups
I was thinking that with the news from Birmingham these last few days.
