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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 06 January 2014 04:16:15AM 14 points [-]

Most of the problems described in this post seem to be things that are not really practical to do anything about, but this caught my eye:

tl;dr: If you just typed in all honesty “I like eugenics”, even if I enjoy your posts about economics, congratulations, you freak me out and I really, really don’t know why I’m still reading your blog.

Really we need to stop using the word "eugenics." In the real world it really isn't smart to keep insisting on the "official" definition of a word decades after it acquired negative connotations for actually pretty good reasons.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 13 January 2014 07:36:48AM 8 points [-]

You know the problem with not outright saying that what you are advocating is actually eugenics is that eventually someone else will do it for you.

Comment author: Calvin 13 January 2014 07:46:52AM 1 point [-]

Hopefully if their use of the world differs from expectations casual observers won't catch up, I mean...

We want to increase average human cognitive abilities by granting all the children with access to better education.

Wouldn't raise many eyebrows, but if you heard...

We want to increase average human cognitive abilities by discouraging lower IQ people from having children.

...then I can't help the feeling that e-word may crop up a lot. I would probably be inclined to use it myself, for all honesty.

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