X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-facing-reality.md;h=9b460d000bd48d3592249b62d186d29ee5bc2987;hp=26e5fa485376793ea1cfcdd6a0a4aad1a08dc37b;hb=6473fc62df3d356c22092f3ea98eeba06acef514;hpb=7a619247ae2d5ae44e2f2d5c8a46a4633922685c diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index 26e5fa4..9b460d0 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -79,3 +79,12 @@ https://dynomight.net/are-tests-irrelevant/ https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white It's going to be the future soon; things aren't always going to be like this + +https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1229060502984306689 +> For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it. + +> While a limited form of selection in humans is acceptable—for example, preventing a couple who are carriers of a recessive genetic defect or disease from producing an offspring with that condition—the kind of wholesale and directed selective breeding of humans suggested by the word "eugenics" is immoral, and I don't favor it at all. +https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/discovery-institute-makes-hay-of-dawkins-tweet-and-a-geneticist-mistakenly-says-that-artificial-selection-wont-work-in-humans/ + +> I hold eugenics to be completely immoral and we should not attempt to implement it. +https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1229890352275955713