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217: The History of Trans Science (with NOAHFINNCE)

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The Dangers of Eugenics

In the broadest sense, it does make sense sort of intuitively that eugenics would work by which I mean if you stop people with traits you don't want to have in your population from breeding. That idea feels intuitively like it makes sense. But one, it's very bad on the face of it. Like, I write that even if it did make sense or work, it would be bad because stopping people from producing offspring because you don't like certain traits about them is messed up. It speaks to some part of human nature. And that's why it's so dangerous because it sort of sounds like it Makes sense but also doesn't work. We know that it doesn

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