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What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Kurtagag@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This is an extremely popular opinion among those who've not unpacked that what you're describing is eugenics

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[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

It is not, at all, eugenics. Nothing in my unpopular opinion has anything to do with genetic traits

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[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

whatever metrics you use to decide who gets to procreate, you will certainly bias the gene pool. That's eugenics

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