Chapter 4: Modern day eugenics: social desensitisation to the value of human life
“What is the result of this exclusive and unintelligent protection of the weak, the infirm, the incurable, the wicked, to all those who are ill-favoured by nature? It is that the ills which have afflicted them tend to be perpetuated and multiplied indefinitely; that evil is increased instead of diminishing, and tends to grow at the expense of the good.”- Clemence Royer, 1862 preface to the French translation of the Origin of Species
The quiet refuge that eugenics went into after the war is now over and it has become more prominent in recent years, as society has forgotten its war, and even post war atrocities. Modern day eugenics acts upon the same principals as Nazi eugenics and post- war eugenics, though not seen as out rightly radical. This is because human life has been devalued to such an extent that we view many inherently Nazi eugenic techniques as a social norm or even a moral good. By viewing atrocities as moral good the Nazis were able to carry out great evils, have we also developed a
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The FDA approved aspartame “under very suspect circumstances” (Macdonald, (2015)), and we now know that “92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption” (Hull, (2002)), and 92 known medical cases have been directly associated with this and it is “the most complained about substance in their history” (Macdonald, (2015)). Yet, this substance is still FDA approved today. FDA also admits to knowingly putting arsenic in chicken meat. The FDA claimed that the arsenic was "excreted in the chicken feces” (Adams, Mike. (2011)), but only recently they admit that some arsenic ends up in the chicken meat and has subsequently removed it from shelfs. Arsenic is carcinogenic. These atrocities and more made by the FDA are no coincidence, they aim at weakening the population to cut down sizes so that the rich can