Boys and Girls in Space

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "terrierkeeper"

> I would be very careful about using biology to justify behaviors. The
> Eugenics movement has left quite a mark in history a very bad and
> bloody one.

1.) Define Eugenics. Don't mix up state ordered policies which are
negative in scope (depriving people of bodily sovereignty) with
individual focused choices (enhancing the reproductive rights of
people). To have the State round you up and then sterilize you, or
kill you, is completely different from a woman being very selective
about who she wants to have children with, or a couple advertising for
eggs on Ivy League campuses, or couples using PEGD to eliminate
embryos positive for Tays-Sachs, or couples in the future deciding to
have a child via IVF and electing to give the child an IQ boost.

Negative eugencis and positive eugenics both work towards the same
end, but there is a difference between the Planned
Parenthood/Progressive/NAZI policies and the soccer-mom choices.

2.) If you're really inclined to argue which ideologies have left the
bloodiest footprints through history, then Eugenics is a sorry loser,
for the winner, hands down, is the Class-based analysis that was
handed to us from Marx. The body counts of communist regimes make the
crimes of the Nazi pale in comparison.

There is nothing natural about having a tax system that is based on
class, where progressive taxation rewards the lower income earners and
penalizes the higher income earners. Not complying with such a system
insures that the brutality of gov't will be exercised in your direction.

TangoMan