Friday, February 5, 2010

Genocide vs. Eugenics?

Around the world, Genocide is and was taking place right before our very eyes. When do people seem to reason that Genocide is not just human beings? I can not tell you this, but, what I can is that Eugenics seems like Genocide. The definition of Genocide is from wikipedia "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group." link, and here is the definition for Eugenics "Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. In a historical and broader sense, Eugenics can also be a study of "improving human genetic qualities." Link... to read the rest click on the link and it will go more thorough than I can.

The main reasons for Genocide in my opinion, is that it is cleansing the earth from an unwanted group of people in accordance to the definition of Genocide. Now what is it that people can want from another dead, it is a mystery but, to some it is what they were raised to do, others, they were put into certain situations that made them do it. Eugenics is the study of perfection of human genes to the opinion of the beholder, and other around. "Eugenics was a popular theory in the early twentieth century but is no longer taken seriously, primarily because of the horrors of the eugenic efforts of the Nazi regime in Germany." link

In the website Future Generations the scientists are figuring out how to create the perfect human by selective breeding, instead of killing them they let them die out. A great definition for Eugenics "improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)"link. As the years pass by the human population rises and Eugenics might have to come into play to keep the world in balance.

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