- Eugenics is the study of the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis. Eugenics can be traced back to right after the Civil War.
- Eugenics arose in the 20th century as two wings of a common philosophy of what a human is worth. It started with Francis Galton who wanted to see the healthier people have more kids. This was the positive outlook of this philosophy. The United States, Germany, and Scandinavia saw eugenics in the negative way.
- They wanted to segregate the people that they saw unfit to produce. With the technology available research was very hard to do. Using Mendel's laws, they tried to link it with the inheritance of human traits. While they were trying to evaluate genes they came up with that there were dominate and recessive genes. The flaws to their research was that it is unethical.
- Eugenics affected America by trying to convince America of all the imperfections in life by putting eugenics in movies, sermons, and speeches.
This is a link to a picture of midgets that worked at a circus. According to Eugenics they thought that they should be sterilized.
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/index2.html?tag=694
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http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Eugenics In My Opinion
Eugenics basic structure to create the perfect race of humans starts off sounding really good, but with more research I've come up with both the positive and negative sides of this philosophy. While looking at the positives, eugenics would be the cure to all major diseases that are passed on from generation to generation. It would create a less worrisome and sad world. Using segregation and sterilization as the means to enforce their ideals. With the morals that we have today this idea is extremely wrong. It's easy to evaluate the negatives, but when you take a look at the positives it really makes your mind think what if this was to happen. Eugenics would cure countless diseases that are hereditary and cause death. It would be the frontier of a perfect society. By limiting who can have kids for one or two generations countless worries would go away. Also all the guess working of whether you're going to have the disease or not would be gone. It would be a dark and cruel world for about one hundred years, but the outcome would enlighten the human race forever.
In my opinion Eugenics takes away our rights and natural instincts to have kids. I shouldn't be up to the government to decide whether you are worthy to have a kid. Also it dictates who you could have a kid with also. It is against the constitutions Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Eugenics overall theory sounds really positive, but due to it's measures on how to achieve it, Eugenics negative sides really take over. It is hard to see such a negative idea in a positive way. The theory is meant to make everyone healthier and stronger, but with all the limitations and restrictions the idea just doesn't settle with society.
