RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

["Russell Horn" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> OK, if by "the rational thing from a biologists perspective" you mean
> "what most intelligent people would want to see."  We agree on that.  I'd
> like to see social systems that promote reproduction of the most
> intelligent and healthy people.  I think we can do a lot better than we
> are doing now.  I'm not saying we should be coercive like the Nazi's were
> (e.g., sterilizing the putatively mediocre against their wishes), but we
> can change the tax code and welfare regulations in accordance with the
> principle that 'better' people make 'better' children.
>

Would it not be better to use tax payers dollars to reduce the levels of
poverty so that more people have a chance of being "better" people rather
than employing another tax subsidy for the bourgeois middle classes?

We are talking about a poor underclass who are denied adequate health care
and who's children have no access to many educational tools. perhaps by
waging war on poverty, rather than on other countries, by spending dollars
on Social Security and Hospitals rather than cruise missiles, you could
bring many of the poor up to the standards of your "better" people.

Russell.

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