Do you support any form of eugenics?

[Adam Griffin]

In theory, I find the concept interesting and potentially something that future generations may have to consider.

In practice, I can't see a way for it to occur without either
a) creating some of the worst discriminatory and authoritarian atmospheres we've ever seen, or b) being wildly inefficient, from both a social and economic standpoint

The planet's got too many people on it. Some will make the argument that advances in technology will continue to allow us to accommodate more people (heh, I've heard arguments made that we can support 40 billion people right now, which I find ridiculous). It is true to an extent, but the rate of advancement coupled with the corrupted nature of suppressing true innovation throughout the world for as long as possible means that it's not true when it comes to relative sustainability.

Then there's the fact that we've created a completely different dynamic over the past century for human civilization. We've managed to create an environment in which people who are truly ignorant, physically inept or mentally compromised can now quite easily survive just as long or do just as well as anyone else. It's not inherently a bad thing, but coupling that with the fact that the ignorant tend to reproduce more leads to a two-pronged issue. If any form of eugenics did become the law of the land in this country or world, then I hope those who wind up being overseers of it will adopt the neutral morality of whatever cold, sterile personality it'd take to do such a thing and not base it on race, gender, class, geography or formal education.

There's only one legitimate reason why this issue would ever have to be considered or implemented, and there's only one by-product of such an event that eugenics would have a credible ability to rectify on a macro scale. Anything else and it's genocide.