Many physicians and scientists were frantic about threats they saw to the genetic health of the nation posed by the presence of inferior populations such as Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and, and African people. Eugenics consumed the German medical, biological and social scientific communities in the decade before World War II. What we must remember is that Hitler’s form of eugenics is not what I am inferring here. If we were to apply some sort of science to maintain a healthy baby at birth, we might not be seriously disrupting the natural selection process.When most people think of eugenics, the first thing that comes to mind would have to be Hitler. Instead of sustaining these people after birth, there should have been a way to prevent all of these defects from occurring in general. Think of all the handicapped people that are born (Armless, legless, blind, deaf, retarded, etc?). This is a perfect example of how the disruption of the natural selection process can cause chaotic damage to a societyInstead of giving out drugs to help keep alive people (people who might have been dead without them), eugenics can be used to reassure that there are no bad defects in someone whence they are born. Though a quick death by malaria was avoided, now there is a slow, undernourished feeling of death creeping all throughout the island. Though the intentions of this act were good, there would now be a lack of shelter, clothing, education and food to go around. After two or three years, hundreds of thousands of lives are saved.
Suppose someone was to go to a tropical island with DDT and wipe out malaria. Though there are many drawbacks in using eugenics, the ultimate goal is very beneficial.Huxley gives a very clear example on why we need a system like eugenics when he states an example which involves introducing a cure for malaria to a tropical island. This leads to the formation of the idea that we need to institute a eugenics program. In chapter II of a Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley, Huxley makes some very bold statements on the current state of our nations increasing technology towards medicine.
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