Quote: (07-08-2013 04:59 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:
It's always good to bring up Jimi Hendrix's mother was a sadly dysfunctional drunk who didn't want to give birth to Jimi. Luckily for music there was no mandatory sterilization eugenics program.
Cherry picking is a fallacy. And eugenics does not rely on sterilization only. Positive eugenics would consist, for example, of tax incentives for the best specimens to breed more, thus ensuring that the human capital of a society appreciates over time.
If one could have a society where everyone is highly intelligent, gorgeous, and mentally stable, I don't know what we're waiting for. That would be the closest one could get to true equality, since everyone would be dealt a similar hand in the genetic lottery.
"The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her." – H.L. Mencken