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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (40 children)

this is eugenicist propaganda. also, going vegan has no impact at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No it is not. Eugenics is an attempt to improve the genetic quality of a human population.

We are talking about an attempt to stop climate change. We are not trying to “improve” the genetics of human population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We are talking about an attempt to stop climate change

those are the trappings, but the method is bare eugenics

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No it is not. Eugenics is a pseudo-science about improvement of genetics. Period.

Trying to avoid climate catastrophe is not about improving genetics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trying to avoid climate catastrophe is not about improving genetics.

if the method by which you try to avoid it is eugenicist, then it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m done.

I am not into bickering for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i didn't ask you to say anything in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Eugenics is a pseudo-science about improvement of genetics. Period

no, it's not, even the wikipedia article we both love disputes this claim plainly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

that's a narrow definition that doesn't really encompass all the ways in which eugenics has been practiced. frequently, as i have done here, it is used synonymously with genocide. stop practicing genocide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. Genocide is murdering people. Genocide is violence against people. Forcing people, against their will to stop existing.

Asking people to reproduce less is asking people (not forcing them) to exercise their own will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

genocide is also propaganda that encourages one segment of the population to cease reproduction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that is true, but eugenics is something very different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

in this case, it's a synonymous use. they are totally equivalent in this respect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Braindead take. We don't need more children to be born into a world of suffering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Eugenics sounds good at first, but human greed and corruption makes it an incredibly dangerous tool that should probably not be in the hands of anyone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think eugenics sounds good.

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