By Pamela R. Winnick
ISBN-10: 1595550194
ISBN-13: 9781595550194
We live in frightening occasions. Very frightening instances. yet we've not gotten the following accidentally. it has been a means of devoted motion at the a part of pushed contributors and teams. They used to name themselves eugenicists. yet then Hitler utilized their principles in Germany and so they needed to locate one other label. this day, a lot of them are "social biologists" or "population keep watch over advocates" (Seriously... The magazine of Social Biology was known as the magazine of the yankee Eugenics Society). no matter what they name themselves, those self-appointed elite have used technology as a sledgehammer, chipping away on the ethical foundations of our tradition.
Driving them is that this: the production of an ideal society. through excellent, they suggest a society with out poverty, sickness or conflict. Sounds fabulous does not it? For the "science crusaders," the imaginative and prescient is so attractive few (or many) lives might be sacrificed in attaining it.
If you actually need to grasp extra approximately this technique, you want to learn Pamela Winnick's publication. In it, she info how an alarming variety of scientists are actively pursuing this new global, person who will possibly not comprise you or me (The merely ethical pace bumps for such scientists are the moralists they runs over on their technique to utopia). i do know. i do know. It sounds severe. It seems like a reactionary, fear-mongering evangelical has painted his wood signal and taken out his bullhorn. So, i'm going to allow you to be the pass judgement on. think of:
* Nobel Prize-winning physicist William Shockley overtly endorsed selective sterilization for the negative and
unintelligent.
* Biology professor Garrett Hardin took this message to the biology textbooks writing: "People of low I.Q. are reproducing at a quicker price than people with a excessive I.Q." and that "[s]ooner or later ... human inhabitants will succeed in a limit.... ultimately, now not all of the young children that people are keen to procreate can live to tell the tale. both there needs to be a comparatively painless removing prior to start or a extra painful and wasteful removal of people after birth."
* after which there is H. Bently Glass, former elected president of the yank organization for the development of technology: "It can not be affirmed that the suitable of the fellow and lady to breed as they see healthy is inviolate... [N]o mom and dad will ... have a correct to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child."
For a style in their acidic vanity, examine Dr. Christiaan Barnard's phrases prior to Congress as he strongly
resisted public oversight of clinical learn:
"Let us take care to not shackle the investigator with pointless strictures, in an effort to dry up untapped assets of creativity.... while you're taking into account theologians, legal professionals, philosophers and others to provide a few direction.... i can't see how they can help."
And you cannot even start to think the study they've been doing. yet to profit extra approximately this flow and its implications, you want to learn A Jealous God. it's a well-researched expos
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Individuals with weaker bonds to their social groups did not benefit from the protection and support provided by groups, and lived riskier lives. There was a gradual shift in human cultures toward groups that give higher value to what in modern terms is summed up as “team spirit”—being motivated to work for the success of the group, being concerned to achieve a positive group identity, standing up for one’s group, and so on. 5 Individuals do not like to be completely absorbed and “lost” in the collectivity.
11 We need to be careful not to be seduced by any one narrow perspective, any one part of the whole. One way to assess the contributions of the different schools in an integrated manner is to categorize the schools into following two groups: group one, the schools that place more emphasis on the inbuilt characteristics of the psychological citizen; group two, the schools that place more emphasis on the shaping of the psychological citizen by the environmental conditions. This classification leads to structuralism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology in group one, and behaviorism and social constructionism in group two.
In order to highlight the threats associated with changing environmental conditions, I discuss globalization as an ideal (Chapter 4) in contrast to fractured globalization (Chapter 5). Thus, the four chapters in Part One of this book identify certain universals in human social behavior, explore the difference between globalization as an ideal and globalization as it is actually taking place (fractured globalization), and highlight perceived threats to basic human needs, particularly identity needs, arising from fractured globalization.
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