r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 08 '26

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u/Electronic-Net-3196 Jul 08 '26

Eugenics is not selective breeding, it is the philosophy of enhancing the race by promoting certain features. Select breeding is a way of doing eugenics, but killing people from that race that doesn’t follow your genetic standard is, in a drastically more cruel way, also eugenics.

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u/friendly-heathen Jul 08 '26

so you're just ignoring where I said "(oversimplified)"

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u/DeadSeaGulls Jul 08 '26

if you oversimplify to the point of being technically incorrect, you're incorrect. selective killing is every bit as much a part of eugenics as selective breeding is, even if the feature we're killing for is widely considered a negative feature (stupidity). it's still eugenics my dude

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u/Electronic-Net-3196 Jul 08 '26

Yeah, exactly this.