| The nice thing about eugenics is that since it's all based on statistics, it's esy to do computer simulations.
I have worked in C++ (a programming language) with a lot of evolutionary algorithms - simulating evolution and the like. It's pretty fascinating stuff. Anyway, I did a simulation using the US population, and the allelic frequencies for epilepsy. Even if you kill avaryone with the disease, it takes about 1000 years to get a 1% decrease in incidance. This has to do with the way most traits are inherited.
The upshot of all this is that though eugenics works in theory, it's practicality is almost nill.
Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.
-Søren Kierkegaard |