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Murdering the elderly seems like an ineffective way to start a eugenics program.
Killing off people elderly people could potentially lead to eugenic effects downstream. Not everything is simple and easy to understand as you want it to be.
Killing off elderly people could potentially lead to eugenic effects downstream.
Can you illustrate how, in an example? You seem to be decisive this is true, but it isn’t obvious to me and I didn’t see an explanation yet.
If possible, try to link your explanation to concepts used in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics, so that we don’t talk past each other.
From my possibly still uneducated point of view, what happens to elderly people (who don’t procreate) can not alter the gene pool.
Funny comment for somebody with the nick ‘KillAllPoorPeople’, but wrong in my eyes, nonetheless. Eugenic is preselection of who gets born by either prenatal measurements or hindering those who are able to reproduce. Killing off people who will have no chance to reproduce anyways is from an eugenic point of view insignificant. There is no longterm downstream effect, only the possibility of some moral change.
“I cannot personally think of a scenario where something is true, therefore, it can not and can never be true.” - every great philosopher and scientist