2007-02-07 19:56:04 · 4 answers · asked by deepanjan_nag_123 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Eugenics is the other pseudo scientific name of racism.
2007-02-07 20:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not support eugenics but there are many powerful people who do and don' know it. Some of them deny it because they do not understand. When a doctor asks for newborn karyotype screening on a child with multiple defects, the physician is not just after the diagnosis but a decision to continue life or not, to be aggressive on therapy or not. Some doctors think it is just prognostication and the ability to channel resources in more effective areas but prognosis is just a number game. My recent experience is with a near term Trisomy 13 with mild congenital defects (cleft lip and palate, 2mm ventricular septal defect, omphalocele and ruptured Meckel's diverticulum). The infant has been denied subsequent government support after the karyotyping result has been released.
The fate of one life is too fragile to be given to any human. Denying chance to a living human is worse than cruelty to animals. Eugenics support the numbers game (keeps survival figures low), but not humanity and its diversity. Limiting the gene pool weakens the species and render it susceptible to even the mildest form of genetic terrorism.
2007-02-07 21:38:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Man is not God. He is not omnipotent and he is bias. Man is not in a position to decide what is a superior person. Case in point, Sickle cell Anemia. It is a disease, but it is beneficial to those in the tropic to prevent malaria. There may be imperfections in our genes that latter might be proven beneficial in other ways.
2007-02-07 20:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. It sucks.
2007-02-08 00:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋