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Entry: Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Meme Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/margaret_sanger_and_the_eugenics_meme#24608 Post contents: "Old Atlantic" wrote: >Sanger was right on [sic] her views. The Republican National >Convention should adopt a resolution that no person may accept >its nomination for president who does not accept them and pledge >to carry them out. Her words jar because the truth jars. Our >society has gone the wrong way and we see the fruits of lying >to ourselves for decades. Bad genes kill a civilization based >on good genes. Filtering out bad genes is a basic job of life. >Life can not continue if bad genes are not filtered out. It is >the task of every generation. BRAVO!!!! But... are you by chance either self-employed or retired? I ask because I've lost more than one job for saying far less than this. Epstein's original piece attributed to Sanger the suggestion that we "give dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization." Forced sterilization is of course barbaric; if we want to discourage breeding among those who are truly unable to raise a child responsibly -- for either physical OR mental reasons -- we must (as every economist knows) DIS-INCENTIVIZE it. What we are doing now is exactly the opposite: paying indigent single teens with babies as much as they need to live independently, which is bad enough, and then INCREASING the payment for each new illegitimate child she bears! And then we wonder why we get exactly the opposite of the desired result. How the world has changed since Sanger's era. It is now realistically impossible to segregate dysgenic populations even were such segregation to be strictly voluntary (surely not what Sanger had in mind). Instead, VOLUNTARY, INDIVIDUAL "neo-eugenics" groups worldwide are beginning to form Intentional Communities, thereby peacefully segregating ourselves from dysgenics rather than the other way around. My crowd is aiming to segregate ourselves (well, our descendants) in Low Earth Orbit a la the visionary science of the late space colonization guru and Princeton professor Gerard O'Neill and the inspiring fiction of the late Robert Heinlein. Likeminded others are welcome to join our study group! The ORION Initiative http://members.tripod.com/orionaut-ivil/ [apologies for the unwieldy URL; our mirror site under a much easier name has been down for a while...sigh...] Sent at: 2008 10 06