The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Friday, April 05, 2013

Thur Evening Class Alert! Graduate Mother Scheme

We were discussing this controversial 'Graduate Mother Scheme' last night, which u can read for urself below....It was introduced by the govt many years ago in an attempt at social engineering, i.e. influencing the kind of people that is being bred. This is selective breeding, i.e. eugenics. Hitler tried to do it also, except that he did it forcefully by packing those he deemed 'inferior' to the gas chambers, so that only the 'superior' Aryan race populated Germany. Singapore, as well as many other countries, tried to achieve the same outcome, by incentivising rather than by force. The bottomline is that people still get to choose, only that the govt tried to influence this decision-making via sweetening the desired choice with incentives or conversely. But yup, the 'less desired' were given incentives to undergo voluntary sterilization!!! (note though that they were not forced, but perhaps 'coaxed')
In the light of the question discussed last night, letting people have children by artificial means can create a similar social divide, as usually it is the richer ones who can afford the expensive technology, and hence get to have 'designer babies'. Even if they use the technology just to have 'normal' babies in cases where they have fertility problems, the fact remains that it is only the rich who can have the option because of their wealth, whereas the poor are denied this option. Society will thus be segregated into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots', or the 'superior' race of designer babies vs the normal or regular ones who are now deemed 'inferior' by comparison.

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