Voluntary Fascism?
A recent paper in the Pacific Northwest Medical Journal describes a new state sponsored sterility program in California.
The state of California, taking their cue from the city of San Francisco, is offering state funded vasectomies to obese men. The goal of this effort is the voluntary reduction in "inferior" genes from the California gene pool.
My question: what's next? Shall we offer free vasectomies to other groups of people with "undesirable" qualities? If that's the case, it seems that obesity is the least of our problems, especially in California.
The state of California, taking their cue from the city of San Francisco, is offering state funded vasectomies to obese men. The goal of this effort is the voluntary reduction in "inferior" genes from the California gene pool.
My question: what's next? Shall we offer free vasectomies to other groups of people with "undesirable" qualities? If that's the case, it seems that obesity is the least of our problems, especially in California.
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From the article:
So the question of whether or not sterility is valid and socially responsible solution to the obesity epidemic plaguing this country no longer remains. The physicians' job, as professor M. Sullivan from the University of Washington said, is "to focus on patients' lives rather than patients' bodies" [8]. It is paramount that the overall condition of life for people be improved to the point where poor genes do not hold one back from proper development of fitness and overall well-being. The State of California has established commitment to this way of thinking - and this researcher only hopes that the rest of the nation follows suit.
Wow. Is that Himmler? No, it's some idiot researcher named Joseph Williams.
By Ben Polidore, At 3:11 PM EST
This type of social darwinism is what Scopes was teaching before his famous trial.
By Holmes, At 9:59 PM EDT
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