Eugenics is a scientific field involving the controlled breeding
of humans in order to achieve desirable traits in future
generations.[2] Eugenics was at its height in first half of the
20th century and was largely abandoned with the end of World War
II.[3] At its zenith, the movement often pursued pseudoscientific
notions of racial supremacy and purity.[4]
Eugenic was not confined to any one country or culture, but was
practised around the world and was promoted by governments, and
influential individuals and institutions. Its advocates regarded it
as a social philosophy for the improvement of human hereditary
traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of certain
people and traits, and the reduction of reproduction of certain
people and traits.[5] Today it is widely regarded as a brutal
movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on
millions of people.[6] The "interventions" advocated and practised
by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and
classification of individuals and their families, including the
poor, mentally ill, blind, 'promiscuous women', homosexuals and
entire "racial" groups——such as the Roma and Jews——as "degenerate"
or "unfit"; the segregation or institutionalisation of such
individuals and groups, their sterilization, their "euthanasia",
and in the worst case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.[7]
The practices engaged in by eugenicists involving violations of
privacy, attacks on reputation, violations of the right to life, to
found a family, to discrimination are all today classified as
violations of human rights. The practice of negative racial aspects
of eugenics, after World War II, fell within the definition of the
new international crime of genocide, set out in the Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[8]
Why is Sg still continuing
it?
Meat is murder.
Why are you still eating meat?