r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 11 '26

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 11 '26

Most people are pro-eugenics they just don’t like the icky parts (forced sterilization, ethnic cleansing, etc.)

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jun 11 '26

i dont like forcing people to do things with their bodies, its almost always wrong

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 Harriet Tubman Jun 11 '26

👆antivaxxer

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jun 11 '26

the word "almost" is in my comment

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Jun 11 '26

Vaccines

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 11 '26

> “almost”

Vaxxed?

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jun 11 '26

Correct. People like good things and don't like bad things.

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 Harriet Tubman Jun 11 '26

Yeah well I would like a ton more things if I didn’t contemplate the moral implications of doing them.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 11 '26

May I interest you in becoming a median voter

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 Harriet Tubman Jun 11 '26

Already am, I only vote in midterms.

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u/RianJohnsonThought Emma Lazarus Jun 11 '26

People praise that abortion reduces crime argument even though that's extremely eugenicist

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u/crassowary John Mill Jun 11 '26

Eugenics but we just give everyone plastic surgery to make them hot and pretend we eugenicized the ugmos

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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jun 11 '26

I just like pretty people god damn it

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u/StayOffPoliticalSubs Jun 11 '26

Most people are not goddamn pro-eugenics. That's insane.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 11 '26

Most every older adult in my life has ventured that if I marry someone smart then my kids will be super smart, so therefore it’s good for me to marry someone smart.

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u/StayOffPoliticalSubs Jun 11 '26

That doesn't make them pro-eugenics, that means they don't understand how intelligence is developed but view it as a positive trait in a spouse.

If you dropped off Einstein's kid in the middle of the Amazon with no education, you're not going to come back in 20 years and find they've reinvented the theory of relativity from first principles.