"Sometimes, we think why some people have high IQ and high intelligence are important in improving the society. Some might think can it happen when we change Genetic qualities of an individually."
Actually, Eugenics played a important role in these idea when social scientists thought about the nation's economic reasons. They thought Only healthy persons are fit to live in this society and diseased are not
Eugenics
Eugenics is the science of improving human race based on Genetics. Improving the traits of plants and animals through breeding programmes has been in practice for centuries.
Eugenics is highly controversial subject due to social, ethical and political reasons. The proponents of eugenics argue that people with desirable and good traits ( Good blood) should reproduce while those with undesirable characters ( bad blood ) should not. The advocates of Eugenics, however, do not force any policy, but they try to convince the people to perform their duty voluntarily. The objective of eugenics is to limit the production of people who are unfit to live in the society.
System of Arranged marriages
Galton in Hereditary Genius (1869), proposed the system of Arranged marriages , between the men of distinction and women of wealth would eventually produce the gifted race. In 1865, the basic laws of heredity were discovered by the father of modern genetics, Gregor mendel . During the early 1990s , eugenics become a scientific study pursued by both biologists and social scientists. They sought to determine the extent to which human characteristics of social importance were inherited.
Eugenics in Nazi Germany
Germany developed its own eugenic programme during 1930s. A law on eugenic sterilization was passed in 1933. In a span of three years, compulsory sterilization was done on about 250,000 people, who allegdly suffered from hereditary disabilities, feeble mindedness, epilepsy, Schizophrenia, blindness, physical deformities, and drug or alcohol addiction.
The German Government commited many attrocities in the name of racial purity. Other countries, however do not support this kind of eugenics.
Antieugenics sentiment
Eugenics was dropped from organization and Publication names. The U.S department of health, education and welfare proposed guidelines encouraging each state to repeal their respective sterilization laws. Other countries, most notably china , continued to support Eugenics directed programs openly in order to ensure the Genetic makeup of their future.
Let's see how humans are playing with the nature and what are the outcomes if eugenic research on humans continue one day.
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| A Photograph showing eugenic family |
