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Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf you prefer dating humans without genetic defects, congratulations; you’re a eugenicist.
Colloquially eugenics refers not to personal preferences, but to collective rules.
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Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf you prefer dating humans without genetic defects, congratulations; you’re a eugenicist.
Colloquially eugenics refers not to personal preferences, but to collective rules.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Nah, not necessarily imperative. An individual can still be a eugenicist without external support. The only reason the old beliefs that often get credited as “eugenics” were mostly wrong is because they were mostly just ignorance and masked racism, not actual genetic analysis.
All it takes to be a eugenicist is to believe that certain people shouldn’t have children because you believe their genes are bad. That’s it. It’s literally just:
Eu: Prefix meaning “good” Gene: Relating to genes ecist: Believer (not totally sure on this one as search results to verify my beliefs mostly returned “-ition” results, with no explicit statements for -ecist or similar)
It’s just a silly thing for a common fool to believe in, since genetics is complicated! Many confirmed genetic disorders are not inheritable. Many health issues are latent. Someone unfamiliar with the INSANE complexity of biology even in the basics of reproduction have zero right holding an opinion on eugenics, IMO.