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I've also been wondering if eugenics attracts sociopaths or if eugenics turns people into

sociopaths and I think I'm leaning towards the latter.

I think that eugenics turns people into sociopaths because a lot of people with a lot of good

ideas turns to eugenics and thought like this is a pretty good idea based on the information

they had at the time.

The most recent devastating example was WV Dubois turns to eugenics.

I thought you were going to say John Mier.

No, I mean, yeah, John Mier, it's another devastating example but we knew that years

ago but yeah, Dubois, I just learned today.

I was like, oh, that's terrible but also not surprising because so many people were into

it.

Anyway, about sociopathy related to eugenics, so many of the ideas related to eugenics

have like no basis in ethics outside of eugenics.

Like they go against all sense of human nature, all sense of compassion and decency and

they turn humans into data points on a spreadsheet and nothing more than that which is a really

strange thing to be able to get people to sign onto.

But I was reading about eugenics recently because a man and I are trying to be more social

and I want to have things to talk about at dinner parties that will appreciate me to people.

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