The eugenic philosophy is alive in our culture
The eugenic philosophy is alive in our culture
The Vatican’s newspaper has published an article by historian Lucetta Scaraffia concerning the translation into Italian for the first time of the 1920 book by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, titled, Allowing the destruction of life unworthy of life.
The article, “If Life is ‘unworthy of being lived” (see below) offers an historical evaluation of the importance of the book and then it concludes that the basic ideology of the book - i.e. eugenics, or in other words, the elimination of people who are genetically “inferior” or mentally ill - is alive and well in this culture.
Many people wrongly suggest that this book was a result of the Nazi movement in order to minimize the negative reality of the concepts that are promoted in it. Binding and Hoche published this book in 1920, before the founding of the Nazi movement.
We know that the book sold well and the ideology within this book strongly influenced the Nazi movement towards its …More
Peter Singer's works are straight from hell. No sane person can disagree with me on that.
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Cass Sunstein and other obamaites are disciples of Peter Singer!!!
The eugenics movement was very strong in the US (including Margaret Sanger/Planned Parenthood) and the UK in the early 20th century. The German Nazis borrowed this philosophy from the US and UK, and expanded it.
The leading “bioethics” center known as The Hastings Center has been quietly advocating euthanasia, healthcare rationing, etc, for decades.
www.thehastingscenter.org
But now the Hastings Center has found its opportunity, with the advent of obamunism!!!! So it’s no longer quiet.
In the opposite corner, are REAL bioethicists like my Orthodox Christian Brother Wesley J Smith.
www.orthodoxspeakers.com/speakers/wesley-j-smith.html
There are also Roman Catholic and conservative Jewish folks who are practicing bioethicists. So we don’t have to put up with the “death and dying” crowd at the Hastings Center, Peter Singer, Cass Sunstein, and Planned Parenthood (also known as P.P.).