Is eugenics morally wrong?

The moral case against voluntary choices to advance eugenic goals by individuals or couples has not been persuasively made ... if there is a problem of a slope then it must be shown why it is morally permissible for parents to seek betterment after a child is born but why such efforts are wrong if genetic alteration is used. read more

Eugenics is opposed to common sense and rationality. It is a matter of pure power, and reason becomes simply an argument in favor of whoever is the strongest. Eugenics is opposed to common sense and rationality. read more

I gave my Eugenics book to my nephew - a social scientist. It came from my father - think it was dated in the 1930’s - pre-Nazi era. It was the time of American Eugenics. And, to be honest, the whole thing has a clinical-correct absurdness, but - along moral and ethical lines, is totally inhuman. read more

In: Sloan, Phillip R., ed. Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project. read more