Re: sterilizing & segregating the incapable
CerealKiller wrote:Do you think that it is okay to segregate mentally and physically incapable individuals, so they cannot reproduce or sterilize them in order to protect and save good genes within our society?
why or why not?
People who have raped repeatedly or comitted repeated extremely violent crime: maybe. Mental patients or the physically disabled, no.
A. qualifications for what is insane and what isn't change over time. Not too long ago we called people loonies for believing the earth was round or denouncing one g-d or another.
B. Patients can get better over time.
C. We have no idea what makes "good genes" and what doesn't. According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, good genes are the ones that survive.
D. How are we to mentally predict which qualia will serve the human race best in the future? Steven Hawlking seems to have helped our society out quite a bit, and he is an "invalid."
On a related note:
Let me make it absolutely clear that a parent's choice on whether or not to carry a disabled or mentally ill fetus to birth (or any fetus of early stages, for that matter) is entirely their personal decision into which the government should not intervene.