Darwinism played a key role not only in the rise of eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all ultimately embraced by the Nazis. He convincingly makes the disturbing argument that Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles rather than nihilistic ones. From Darwin to Hitler is a provocative yet balanced work that should encourage a rethinking of the historical impact that Darwinism had on the course of events in the twentieth century.
http://www.csustan.edu/History/Faculty/Weikart/FromDarwintoHitler.htmNot bad for a 22-year old twit on a cruise.
Francis Galton (1822-1911) was an English scientist who studied heredity and intelligence. He was the person who coined the word eugenics, using Greek words to express what was originally a Greek concept.
He was a cousin of Charles Darwin. Erasmus Darwin was Francis Galton's maternal grandfather and also Charles Darwin's paternal grandfather. Erasmus Darwin developed a theory of evolution that Charles Darwin later expanded and refined.
In Memories of My Life, Galton said that the publication of Darwin's book on evolution stirred a rebellion against religious dogma: "The publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science."
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap02.htmlBut discussion of eugenics nowadays is almost pointless since
Buck v Bell paved the way for Roe v Wade.
Buck v Bell was widely quoted and deeply admired by the Nazis. Buck v Bell has yet to be overturned. It is STILL valid law.
The theory of peak oil,
and the invasion/extermination of the people of Iraq
is another reason why eugenics cannot be discussed.
Eugenics is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created unequal and the food is running short; that, in the struggle for food, those who have an inherited advantage prevail and pass the advantage on to their children who prevail even more; that this is how evolution, Yale and the English aristocracy happened. A further belief is that, at this point in evolution, the more evolved must take destiny and the less evolved in hand. Selection must not be left to chance for chance is cruel, capricious and, all too often, expensive but must instead be led by the kindly elite - Harvard professors, British aristocrats, Serbian psychiatrists, Aryans and so on. But death control, which has been the main method used by natural selection or chance, for termination of useless populations, must be replaced by birth control which is cheaper, and, as Charles Darwin pointed out in The Descent of Man, more effective.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/index.htmlThe avalanche has started: it is too late for the lemmings to vote.
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For those of you who do not know, Buck v Bell is a case that went to the Supreme Court and they ruled in favor of forced sterilization. This is STILL OK and is what is on the verge of being re instituted in Florida. And wait till you see the voting districts where this shall be carried out .....