Is Genetic Research Neo-Nazi Eugenics?

United States
March 25, 2011 3:30pm CST
Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport claims genetic research which heavily emphasis genetic predisposition (the assumption that certain people are damned to certain health conditions, thus removing any blame for sicknesses such as cancer on environmental and chemical factors) is nothing but the furtherance of the Nazi Eugenics program that used to impose certain practices on certain group of people and sought to exterminate the undesired! Rappoport cites “Remaking Eden” by Lee Silver in which Silver tells of a genetically enhanced group, though just a small percentage of population, runs everything and natural humans are practically slaves. Rappoport concludes that unless influential scientists speak out, then we are doomed!
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suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Mar 11
That does not sound very nice, but it is being done but not in an overt way. When someone says he will not marry a girl because she is not blonde, slim, and pretty, is that not a form of genetic engineering? If no one marries the large boned girl with the square face, is that not a form of genetic engineering? The reason for the certain health conditions is two fold. They lived in a climate where the food that would help them was not available, and they married people who were too close in relation to them. In some cases, marrying a third or fourth cousin may be too close. Oh and in spite of this engineering, we still have people with Down Syndrome, etc. Maybe those who arranged marriages had the right idea. They made sure that the ugly girl got a husband. Not that I am ugly, but I am large boned, and I was not blond and slim when I was young.
Netsbridge
@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Suspenseful, I am very aware that humans are discriminatory beings: People have the right to do or not to do whatever, or so I at least believe. What we are here discussing is the assumption of some that certain people should not be and that those that are ought to be confined to certain socioeconomic levels!
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suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
30 Mar 11
Well I am pro life, that is against abortion and it is not right to abort a baby because he or she might need extreme medical care to stay alive, or cost too much to care for. Oh and there is no need to just have a slave work force as the Nazis have. Everyone has the right to make a living. I do not think it will get to that level where we get a society such as happened in the movie Metropolis or what happened in Nazi Europe if we make a few changes. Thus, It is also just as wrong for certain ethnic groups to be portrayed as always being the bosses, those in charge on tv shows and I am afraid that this might pour out on real life where society decides that a person gets the good careers because of his colour rather then his ability. This is how we go from a society where everyone has a chance to a society where only a few have the chances.
Adoniah
@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
26 Mar 11
You do know that all of that stuff started in the US before the Nazis ever thought about it. Yeah, the perfect wonderful Americans started all of this. It was not the mean old Nazis. However, it is still morally wrong and should be criminally wrong. It used to be, but in the very near future, the youth of the world will most likely vote it into being....
Netsbridge
@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
26 Mar 11
I am impressed! Did not know you were into Science & Technology. Adoniah, I am of the opinion that Isaac Asimov, brilliant scientist turn sci-fi writer, had simply been overwhelmed by what he saw and understood, and had turned to sci-fi to alert those he hoped could understand! Like some sci-fi writers, American Scientist Isaac Asimov, I strongly believe, was relating facts in a very politically correct manner. Have you read Asimov's "That Thou Art Mindful of Him" and others like it? You are correct about the origin of genes manipulation. The Nazis were merely forthcoming.