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Brave New World
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To Build a Better World
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised
for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It would be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moralbusybodies. The robber barons cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point
be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end for they doso with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis (18981963)
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From Protectors to Tyrants
This and no other is the root from which a
tyrant springs; when he first appears he is
a protector.
- Plato
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The Urge to Rule
"The urge to save humanity is almost
always a false front for the urge to rule."
H. L. Mencken
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Fitter Families!
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1893 Conference of Charities and
Corrections
doctors proclaimed that the symptoms offeeblemindedness were more pronouncedin females than in males.
Women had weaker wills, they were moreeasily influenced by their base sexual
appetites and their debauchery posed aparticular temptation even to normaldecent men.
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IQ Tests
Lewis Terman of Stanford University
In The Measurement of Intelligence hesaid:
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Lewis Terman
In the near future intelligence tests will
bring tens of thousands of these high-
grade defectives under surveillance and
protection of society
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Lewis Terman
This will ultimately result in curtailing the
reproduction of feeble-mindedness and in
the elimination of an enormous amount of
crime, pauperism, and industrialefficiency.
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Lewis Terman
It is hardly necessary to emphasize that
the high grade cases, of the type so
frequently overlooked, are precisely the
ones whose guardianship is the mostimportant for the State to assume.
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Eugenics in America
32 states had compulsory sterilization laws
Oregon did its last sterilization in 1981
More than 60,000 American citizens were
sterilized either without their knowledge orwithout their consent
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Sterilization
Cut Welfare benefits
Children as young as 10 years old
Relatives
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Havelock Ellis
The superficially sympathetic man flings a
coin to the beggar. The more deeply
sympathetic builds an almshouse for him
so that he need no longer beg; butperhaps the most radically sympathetic of
all is the man who arranges that the
beggar shall not be born The Task ofSocial Hygienep104
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Herbert Spencer
wrote Social Staticsin 1850 If they are
not sufficiently complete to live, they die,
and it is best they should die all
imperfection must disappear. In this bookhe denounced charity and instead
championed eliminating the unfit.
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Joseph DeJarnette
superintendent of Western State Hospital
of Virginia in 1934
Hitler is beating us at our own game.
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Bertrand Russell
I do not pretend that birth control is theonly way in which population can be keptfrom increasing War has hitherto beendisappointing in this respect, but perhapsbacteriological war may prove moreeffective. If a Black Death could be spreadthroughout the world once in everygeneration survivors could procreate freelywithout making the world too full Thestate of affairs might be somewhatunpleasant, but what of that?
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Bertrand Russell
Really high-minded people are indifferent to
happiness, especially other peoples There
are three ways of securing a society that shall be
stable as regards population. The first is that ofbirth control, the second that of infanticide or
really destructive wars, and the third that of
general misery except for a powerful minority
- The Impact of Science on Society1953
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Margaret Sanger
Womens rights should be autonomous,
self-directed, and should not be imposed
from without
The Eugenic Value of Birth Control
Propaganda, 1921
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Margaret Sanger
No woman shall have the legal right to
bear a child without a permit for
parenthood.
- From her proposed work,The AmericanBaby Code, intended to become law.
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Margaret Sanger
We should hire three or four colored ministers,preferably with social-service backgrounds, andwith engaging personalities. The mostsuccessful educational approach to the Negro isthrough a religious appeal. We dont want theword to go out that we want to exterminate theNegro population, and the minister is the manwho can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs
to any of their more rebellious members.Margaret Sangers December 19, 1939 letter toDr. Clarence Gamble
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Margaret Sanger
[Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and morenormal sections of the world to shoulder the burden ofunthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; whichbrings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a deadweight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and
aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimentalto the future of the race and the world, it tends to renderthem to a menacing degree dominant We are payingfor, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings
who never should have been born at all.- Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922.Chapter on The Cruelty of Charity, pages 116, 122,and 189.
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Margaret Sanger
The undeniably feeble-minded should,
indeed, not only be discouraged but
prevented from propagating their kind.
- Margaret Sanger, quoted in CharlesValenza Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?
Family Planning Perspectives, January-
February 1985, page 44.
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Margaret Sanger
Give dysgenic groups in our population
their choice of segregation or (compulsory)
sterilization.
- Margaret Sanger, April 1932 BirthControl Review.
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Margaret Sanger
The most urgent problem today is how to
limit and discourage the over-fertility of the
mentally and physically defective.
- Margaret Sanger. The Eugenic Value ofBirth Control Propaganda. Birth Control
Review, October 1921, page 5.
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Margaret Sanger
The most merciful thing that a family does
to one of its infant members is to kill it.
- Margaret Sanger. The Woman Rebel,
Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Womanand the New Race, 1920.
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Ernst Rudin
"The significance of Rassenhygiene[racialhygiene] did not become evident to all awareGermans until the political activity of Adolf Hitlerand only through his work has our thirty-year
long dream of translating Rassenhygieneintoaction finally become a reality. Whoever is notphysically or mentally fit must not pass on hisdefects to his children. The state must take carethat only the fit produce children. Conversely, it
must be regarded as reprehensible to withholdhealthy children from the state."--at a speech tothe German Society for Rassenhygiene
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John Holdren
Top science advisor
Forced sterilization
Wrote Ecosciencein the 70s Re-affirmed this in 1992 and 2006
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Killing infants & children
Both fetuses and newborns do not have
the same moral status as actual persons.
Killing a newborn should be permissible in
all the cases where abortion is, includingcases where the newborn is not disabled.
Journal of Medical Ethics - Alberto
Giubilini of Monash University, Melbourne& Francesca Minerva at the Centre for
Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at
the University of Melbourne
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Giubilini & Minerva
The fact that both are potential persons is
morally irrelevant, merely being human is
not in itself a reason for ascribing
someone a right to life.
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The Real Purpose of Politics
"The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed -- and hence
clamorous to be led to safety -- by
menacing it with an endless series ofhobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H.L. Mencken