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What would happen if instead of applying eugenics to humans directly, we first tested it on animals?
We do use it on animals/plants, but not to select for things we care about in ourselves. We could use selective breeding to select for high IQ in apes. If it works without any significant side-effect, then it might work on us too. And on top of that we might also create a class of high IQ monkey slaves.

>> No.14870878

>>14870875
>inb4 it's what brown people are

>> No.14870916

>>14870875
>eugenics
meh just fuck your cousin or sister

>> No.14870923

>>14870875
Genetic engineering can fulfill the goals of eugenics without the selective breeding and genocide.

>> No.14870967

>>14870875
What do you think dogs are?

>> No.14870998

>>14870967
we don't select dogs for intelligence, tho.

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14871032

>>14870998
You dont.

>> No.14871218

>>14871032
dumb dog, people don't accept leaves as payment

>> No.14871539

>>14870875
Humans had been doing it since neolithic. Plants and animals. There's even dog breeds selected by its intelligence.

The problem of IQ is that you dont have good feedback with animals. Also apes dont have some genes that would allow them to be really smart, so you wont get "intelligent monkeys", only "quick monkeys". Selection doesn't create new genes, you would need genetic mod and selection to speed up, but it's too expensive.

There's another problem, some retards what to give ape rights to all great apes

>> No.14871857

covertly promoting high fertility in couples with desirable characteristics (on a holistic level, not merely intelligence, or beauty, or whatever), would yield the same benefits over time, without accidentally breeding resentment or inferiority complexes in others by tagging them as unfit. nobody needs to discourage downies or hideously ugly or chronically sick people from having kids because they are at a disadvantage anyway. everyone in the middle, laissez faire.

>> No.14871861

i will add that anybody mentioning the words ‘genetic engineering’ are both moronic and dangerous and should not propagate their genes, lest their propensity towards arrogance and ignorance be passed down.

>> No.14871900

>>14871218
Maybe this dog believes people are even dumber.

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>>14871857
>covertly promoting high fertility in couples with desirable characteristics (on a holistic level, not merely intelligence, or beauty, or whatever), would yield the same benefits over time
I mean, that's implying Society is functioning properly, and I would strongly, strongly agree with that sentiment.

>>14871861
>i will add that anybody mentioning the words ‘genetic engineering’ are both moronic and dangerous and should not propagate their genes, lest their propensity towards arrogance and ignorance be passed down.
When is this clown show going to end... For the past century, it seems like the only ones who have been winning are the midwit-sociopaths, picrel.

>> No.14872314

>>14870875
The argument isn't whether eugenics works or not. It indisputably does.
The argument is what does that mean for the tenets of liberalism.