Brave New World Fall 2013

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Brave New World


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To Build a Better World

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised

for the good of its victims may be the most

oppressive. It would be better to live under

robber barons than under omnipotent moralbusybodies. The robber barons cruelty may

sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point

be satiated; but those who torment us for our

own good will torment us without end for they doso with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis (18981963)


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From Protectors to Tyrants

This and no other is the root from which a

tyrant springs; when he first appears he is

a protector.

- Plato


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The Urge to Rule

"The urge to save humanity is almost

always a false front for the urge to rule."

H. L. Mencken


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Fitter Families!


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1893 Conference of Charities and

Corrections

doctors proclaimed that the symptoms offeeblemindedness were more pronouncedin females than in males.

Women had weaker wills, they were moreeasily influenced by their base sexual

appetites and their debauchery posed aparticular temptation even to normaldecent men.


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IQ Tests

Lewis Terman of Stanford University

In The Measurement of Intelligence hesaid:


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Lewis Terman

In the near future intelligence tests will

bring tens of thousands of these high-

grade defectives under surveillance and

protection of society


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Lewis Terman

This will ultimately result in curtailing the

reproduction of feeble-mindedness and in

the elimination of an enormous amount of

crime, pauperism, and industrialefficiency.


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Lewis Terman

It is hardly necessary to emphasize that

the high grade cases, of the type so

frequently overlooked, are precisely the

ones whose guardianship is the mostimportant for the State to assume.


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Eugenics in America

32 states had compulsory sterilization laws

Oregon did its last sterilization in 1981

More than 60,000 American citizens were

sterilized either without their knowledge orwithout their consent


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Sterilization

Cut Welfare benefits

Children as young as 10 years old

Relatives


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Havelock Ellis

The superficially sympathetic man flings a

coin to the beggar. The more deeply

sympathetic builds an almshouse for him

so that he need no longer beg; butperhaps the most radically sympathetic of

all is the man who arranges that the

beggar shall not be born The Task ofSocial Hygienep104


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Herbert Spencer

wrote Social Staticsin 1850 If they are

not sufficiently complete to live, they die,

and it is best they should die all

imperfection must disappear. In this bookhe denounced charity and instead

championed eliminating the unfit.


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Joseph DeJarnette

superintendent of Western State Hospital

of Virginia in 1934

Hitler is beating us at our own game.


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Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is theonly way in which population can be keptfrom increasing War has hitherto beendisappointing in this respect, but perhapsbacteriological war may prove moreeffective. If a Black Death could be spreadthroughout the world once in everygeneration survivors could procreate freelywithout making the world too full Thestate of affairs might be somewhatunpleasant, but what of that?


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Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to

happiness, especially other peoples There

are three ways of securing a society that shall be

stable as regards population. The first is that ofbirth control, the second that of infanticide or

really destructive wars, and the third that of

general misery except for a powerful minority

- The Impact of Science on Society1953


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Margaret Sanger

Womens rights should be autonomous,

self-directed, and should not be imposed

from without

The Eugenic Value of Birth Control

Propaganda, 1921


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Margaret Sanger

No woman shall have the legal right to

bear a child without a permit for

parenthood.

- From her proposed work,The AmericanBaby Code, intended to become law.


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Margaret Sanger

We should hire three or four colored ministers,preferably with social-service backgrounds, andwith engaging personalities. The mostsuccessful educational approach to the Negro isthrough a religious appeal. We dont want theword to go out that we want to exterminate theNegro population, and the minister is the manwho can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs

to any of their more rebellious members.Margaret Sangers December 19, 1939 letter toDr. Clarence Gamble


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Margaret Sanger

[Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and morenormal sections of the world to shoulder the burden ofunthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; whichbrings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a deadweight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and

aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimentalto the future of the race and the world, it tends to renderthem to a menacing degree dominant We are payingfor, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings

who never should have been born at all.- Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922.Chapter on The Cruelty of Charity, pages 116, 122,and 189.


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Margaret Sanger

The undeniably feeble-minded should,

indeed, not only be discouraged but

prevented from propagating their kind.

- Margaret Sanger, quoted in CharlesValenza Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?

Family Planning Perspectives, January-

February 1985, page 44.


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Margaret Sanger

Give dysgenic groups in our population

their choice of segregation or (compulsory)

sterilization.

- Margaret Sanger, April 1932 BirthControl Review.


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Margaret Sanger

The most urgent problem today is how to

limit and discourage the over-fertility of the

mentally and physically defective.

- Margaret Sanger. The Eugenic Value ofBirth Control Propaganda. Birth Control

Review, October 1921, page 5.


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Margaret Sanger

The most merciful thing that a family does

to one of its infant members is to kill it.

- Margaret Sanger. The Woman Rebel,

Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Womanand the New Race, 1920.


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Ernst Rudin

"The significance of Rassenhygiene[racialhygiene] did not become evident to all awareGermans until the political activity of Adolf Hitlerand only through his work has our thirty-year

long dream of translating Rassenhygieneintoaction finally become a reality. Whoever is notphysically or mentally fit must not pass on hisdefects to his children. The state must take carethat only the fit produce children. Conversely, it

must be regarded as reprehensible to withholdhealthy children from the state."--at a speech tothe German Society for Rassenhygiene


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John Holdren

Top science advisor

Forced sterilization

Wrote Ecosciencein the 70s Re-affirmed this in 1992 and 2006


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Killing infants & children

Both fetuses and newborns do not have

the same moral status as actual persons.

Killing a newborn should be permissible in

all the cases where abortion is, includingcases where the newborn is not disabled.

Journal of Medical Ethics - Alberto

Giubilini of Monash University, Melbourne& Francesca Minerva at the Centre for

Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at

the University of Melbourne


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Giubilini & Minerva

The fact that both are potential persons is

morally irrelevant, merely being human is

not in itself a reason for ascribing

someone a right to life.


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The Real Purpose of Politics

"The whole aim of practical politics is to

keep the populace alarmed -- and hence

clamorous to be led to safety -- by

menacing it with an endless series ofhobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H.L. Mencken

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