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- Targeted interventions, such as sterilization, could not breed our defects; even if viable, those techniques would show results only after thousands of years of regulated procreation.
*Many eugenicists viewed population control as a vehicle for modernization, the introduction of liberal democracy, and, if properly pursued, world peace.


- Many eugenicists viewed population control as a vehicle for modernization, the introduction of liberal democracy, and, if properly pursued, world peace.
*Two directions had formed: an outward view focusing on the global framework and an inward view focusing on the family.


- Two directions had formed: an outward view focusing on the global framework and an inward view focusing on the family.
*Many eugenicists blamed racialized population subdivisions, principally those in the Third World, for resource depletion, skyrocketing fertility, and environmental degradation.


- Many eugenicists blamed racialized population subdivisions, principally those in the Third World, for resource depletion, skyrocketing fertility, and environmental degradation.
*Negative Eugenics- marriage restrictions, immigration quotas and compulsory sterilizations.


- Negative Eugenics- marriage restrictions, immigration quotas and compulsory sterilizations.
*Positive Eugenics- concentrated on encouraging those deemed fit to reproduce in higher numbers.
 
- Positive Eugenics- concentrated on encouraging those deemed fit to reproduce in higher numbers.

Revision as of 15:28, 14 November 2007

Centering on Eugenics and the Family

  • Many eugenicists viewed population control as a vehicle for modernization, the introduction of liberal democracy, and, if properly pursued, world peace.
  • Two directions had formed: an outward view focusing on the global framework and an inward view focusing on the family.
  • Many eugenicists blamed racialized population subdivisions, principally those in the Third World, for resource depletion, skyrocketing fertility, and environmental degradation.
  • Negative Eugenics- marriage restrictions, immigration quotas and compulsory sterilizations.
  • Positive Eugenics- concentrated on encouraging those deemed fit to reproduce in higher numbers.
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