07-25-2017, 12:11 PM
(07-25-2017, 11:13 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: God help me, but I agree with Vlad on this. The exact definition of eugenics doesn't exist, but in a very broad sense what he states here is what eugenics is all about. We have a tendency to get defensive about the use of the term for things like this because we are aware of the extreme abuses of the concept that occurred thanks to the movement here and elsewhere in the first half of the twentieth century. But there is no doubt that the basis behind the idea of sterilization of prisoners or even providing prophylactics, no matter how voluntary, is rooted in the concepts of eugenics when viewed in the historical perspective and not solely based on the movement in the modern era.
This is exactly why I use the term eugenics as much as possible, it wakes people up and alerts us to the disinformation by this movement for over 100 years now.
This was a dark time for us and at the time everyone thought it made sense just as "population control" seems to make sense to so many today. There is nothing wrong with turning the lights on this type of behavior.
