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Old 04-13-2008
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Re: Liberal Eugenics

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This oversupply of human beings results in a very low value being placed on a human life.
Human life has always been cheap, even when the population was far lower than it is today. Indeed, if you look at the worst atrocities that humans have committed against other humans... and they have all occurred when the population was considerably lower than it is today.

There's no such thing as "value of human life". There's only the interactions of human beings... and the value of those interactions.

Reducing this population will increase the average wealth and prosperity of the human race.
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There isn't much more in your post that I can respond to-- we'll only end up arguing in circles because of the clear difference in our priorities-- but this I must address.

I did not intend to give offense, nor to condescend to you.
You were condescending, not forcibly but genuinely. Who the hell thinks that people are "created equal"? What did you want to demonstrate by stating such evidence? ...

Besides, I'm interested in your answer to my previous remark - ie, that eugenics pose a lot of social problems, and that it would thus be preferable to engineer more efficient humans rather than select them through eugenics, if we want to improve the species.
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