Isn’t the unpleasant part of eugenics the “killing “bad” people” part? In the Howard Families sense, it was more of a cross between an arranged marriage, a marriage of convenience, and surrogate mothering. A choice with a financial incentive, nobody was killed for being too short lived (!) or raped and forced into it.
Isn’t the unpleasant part of eugenics the “killing “bad” people” part?
For eugenics in general (I know nothing about the fictional case in question), evaluating people as “bad” in the first place is also unpleasant, and I think there’s also history of forced sterilization.
Isn’t the unpleasant part of eugenics the “killing “bad” people” part? In the Howard Families sense, it was more of a cross between an arranged marriage, a marriage of convenience, and surrogate mothering. A choice with a financial incentive, nobody was killed for being too short lived (!) or raped and forced into it.
For eugenics in general (I know nothing about the fictional case in question), evaluating people as “bad” in the first place is also unpleasant, and I think there’s also history of forced sterilization.
I think many people have negative reactions to the word eugenics itself, more so than to some of the realities it can refer to.