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Guide Reproduction Wisely Increasing Fitness and Diversity
Guide number two, guide reproduction wisely improving fitness and diversity sounds to a lot of people like a mandate for eugenics. The word eugenics comes from greek roots that mean good birth. Any time anybody starts talking about improving the human stock, alarm bells naturally go off. And they should. We need genetic diversity as a species in order to be successful the long term. That's why he's written in it, to encourage guiding reproduction to improve both fitness and diversity. If he had just said fitness, you could think he's just an ot. But no, he's interested in promoting genetic diversity as well. Some of the ideas in the book are even more debatable,