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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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@PJMBut what the Nazis did was not - for the most part - eugenics. It was assault and murder.
To the extent that it was eugenics, there's less of a problem.
(And I know I'm going to get misinterpreted on that. For clarification: just because the Nazis did it, it doesn't follow that it's wrong. Nazis also wore shoes - that's not wrong, and not every shoe-wearer is a Nazi. We condemn the Nazis because a lot of what they did was wrong in its own terms. The same applies to eugenics. If it's wrong, it's not because of what happened in Germany, and we ought to look at it on its own terms.)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 17 Mar 2009, 12:09,
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