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Eugenics
Argumentative Essay # 10749
Eugenics
History, philosophy convictions, racism, political issues.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
10 sources |
2001
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"Eugenics is historically an outgrowth of the study of human heredity, aimed at "improving" the genetic quality of the human stock. It is both ancient and widespread; very few societies have remained untouched by its ideas. While the idea of improving humanity is on some level appealing and even appropriate - of we did not think that humans could be improved, we should foreswear the idea of the importance of education, after all - the concept has become inextricably bound up with some of the most virulent forms of racism, for those who have sought to "improve" the human race have done so by seeking to eliminate those that they considered to be inferior from the gene pool right way, without waiting for the slow effects of evolutionary selection (Weiss, 1987, p. 21).The most dramatic example of eugenics is the attempt in Nazi Germany.."
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