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[+] -9 points 1 year ago* (29 children)

If you make a choice not to have kids based on genetic conditions, you're engaging in eugenics.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    If so, then not all eugenics is unethical and the term shouldn't be used as automatically shameful.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    That's the conclusion ableists of the self hating kind often reach, sure.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you saying that people making their own choices about their sexual life are being shameful?

    You forcing a child on people who don't want it is a lot more shameful.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Who said I think personal eugenics is (always) wrong?

    I don't think it is precisely because no one should be shamed or forced into having a child if they think the child will suffer as a result. That's frequently ableist thought, the equation of disability or whatever with suffering, but that's also easier to say about some disabilities than others.

    What I find contempible is the ethical and intellectual cowardice it takes to pretend these actions aren't what they are because someone's fragile ego doesn't want to associate themselves with the bad words.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Then to continue with the same logic, not all "ableism" is unethical, and the term shouldn't be used as automatically shameful.

    Not all "Self Hating" is unethical, and the term shouldn't be used as automatically shameful.

    Reproductive authority belongs to the individual, not the state, nor the general public. It is unethical and shameful for anyone to apply external pressure on that individual's decision, regardless of your moral opinion.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    That or these ableist opinions and pressures are an ethical flaw we will judged for in retrospect by a more advanced society.

    Or perhaps applauded when the fascists win and all members of the ever growing categories of "useless eaters" are purged from humanity.

    And no, it is not unethical for people to point out that these decisions are based on ableist or eugenicist thought.

    What a strange leap of illogic, that it is immoral to challenge ableism and eugenics because someone's feelings might get hurt or they might doubt their own beliefs.

    If the individual is fine, on review, with basing their decisions on internalized ableism or racism or whatever that is obviously their choice, but they should be made aware that that is the choice they are making.

    A rational and ethical individual has an outright responsibility to bring it up, if only so the individuals in question can at least question the pressures leading to their decisions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    but they should be made aware that that is the choice they are making.

    Try rephrasing that in such a way as to not assume ignorance on the part of the individual making the decision.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Why shouldn't I when Lemmy, a relatively educated selection of hyper lefty nerds with various mental illnesses is shitting itself in a self-righteous fury at the idea that they might be indulging in eugenicist and ableist thought?

    Ignorance seems like a pretty reasonable assumption to me.

    It doesn't seem reasonable to assume that everyone knows everything and it's therefore socially unacceptable to bring it up when on the topic.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Seems your arguments are based predominantly on stereotype rather than any actual semblance of reality.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Seems like you couldn't find a real angle to attack or a means to defend your idea that "talking about uncomfortable things is a personal attack and verboten" so you opted to ignore a plainly evident reality with proof unfolded before your eyes.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The plainly evident reality unfolded before my eyes is that "condescension" is the basis of your personality. You deem your opinion to be superior to those of anyone and everyone around you. You feel it is your moral obligation to broadly share your "wisdom"; that your audience betters themselves simply by having been exposed to your word.

    In your own way, you are trying to make the world a better place. Good for you.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    No, you aren't. Eugenics is population level genetic manipulation. The goal is to create a whole group with certain traits...often regardless of the will of the participants. It is based on a series of policies or laws that are enforced by the state.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Sure bro, that's why a random doctor forcibly sterilizing someone they've decided is undesirable doesn't count.

    Oh, wait.

    It does.

    It's also eugenics when you deliberately breed two members hoping to create a child with a specific trait, for example in livestock breeding.

    It turned out you affect the gene pool through individuals, crazy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Umm, yeah...bro. That's when someone ELSE is doing it to you. As in, not your personal decision.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    Point to the part in any definition of eugenics where it says that.

    Clubs like Mensa were created as an eugenicist exercise to get high-IQ individuals to breed. There is no force, there is no punishment for not being in them, there are only individual choices.

    It's still an attempt to alter the human gene pool through selective breeding, positive or negative, personal or systemic.

    Saying "I don't want kids" isn't eugenics.

    Saying "I don't want to risk passing down my depression" is.

    So is "I want to have kids with this person so our children will have trait X"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    As I said in an earlier comment...if those things count as eugenics, then all personal choices count as eugenics. The only thing that wouldn't, is to accept a purely random outcome with no conditions at all. Meaning, you don't even choose your partner based on looks, or intelligence, or background.

    Any selection based on personal characteristics would be considered eugenics. And that's simply ridiculous.

    I chose my wife because I thought she would make a good mother. She was kind, patient and gentle, with a great sense of humor. All qualities I admire and respect. Do I want my child to have those qualities, as well? Sure. Is that eugenics? No. It's just selection based on the attributes you consider favorable.

    If you want what's "best for your children"...you choose your partners carefully. You aren't engineering future populations. You're just being selective about who you choose to share yours with.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Yep. And that's called eugenics, you fuckwit liberal that can't handle that they believe in the bad thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I think I understand where you're coming from, but also doesn't this last reply fit the original meme? This reply telling somebody to sterilise themselves, aka engage in "personal eugenics", fits the reply tweet pictured in the OP, and fits the sentiment critiqued in the meme.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Who says I disagree with the right to personal eugenics? Or termination for that matter.

    It just shouldn't be a result of state actors, or apply to people beyond themselves.

    OP shooting themselves in the nuts is a demonstrable social good, but they don't have the right to do it to themselves or others, like in the meme.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Which apparently means the same as "I will sterilize you" according to your logic.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I can see how someone so fucking stupid they didn't follow a single, extremely obvious point or knows how words work could think that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Says the guy that literally doesn't understand the difference between "eugenics" and "natural selection".

    You are comedy gold, my friend. Dunning and Krueger would have loved to study you.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lmao, the natural selection of deciding not to pass on your genes for ableist reasoning.

    You're just straight up never going to have an opinion worth hearing, gl with the rest of your life, don't be afraid to shoot your own nuts off.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What are you even talking about with the, "ableist reasoning"?

    And I really do have to reiterate...please, read a book. If you want to sound like you know what you're talking about, it helps if you actually understand the words you are using. You obviously have no idea what "eugenics" or "natural selection" even mean.

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