Semantics. Also sounds like eugenics with exrra steps, the state cant mandate but it can provide incentives. Ie is china paying certain races for having children and not other races “planned breeding” or “subtle eugenics”?
Semantics. Also sounds like eugenics with exrra steps, the state cant mandate but it can provide incentives. Ie is china paying certain races for having children and not other races “planned breeding” or “subtle eugenics”?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
The state is not involved in your decision to not have ginger kids. Your decision not to have ginger kids is not eugenics.
The state providing incentives for behavior is a mandate. The state providing incentives for not having ginger kids is eugenics. Not “subtle eugenics”. Not “planned breeding”. Eugenics.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
One could argue the American healthcare system is an incentive for the poor not to have disabled children. Is that eugenics?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
The American healthcare system kills people all day long. But, it’s not a public function; it’s not a component of the state. Yes, it practices voluntary manslaughter for profit, but no, it’s not eugenics.