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How Cambridge bred eugenics
"The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for ‘well born’) was birthed here in Cambridge by Trinity’s own Francis Galton in 1883. Galton was inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin and adapted the idea of natural selection to presuppose that the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies."
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/27401
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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons The idea that "the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies" is a manifestation of the mind-boggling supreme arrogance which asserts that mankind is some how "above" or "beyond" or "outside" nature and not itself subject to the laws of nature.
If we develop "social welfare policies" that's just the laws of nature in operation. Like everything else we do.