> Eugenics had wide scientific support; it wasn't a horror when they proposed it.
But it is a horror now that we've seen a few genocides, which is why it shouldn't be compared to something of a completely different kind, like the minimum wage.
Instead, compare it to wars - which are far closer in terms of the harms they cause - and have also received moral support from economists.
> A seriously high minimum wage ($100,000/year for example; no other policy changes) would probably lead to a period of horror and mass unemployment.
This is reductio ad absurdum, since the min wage wouldn't go that high without major structural and contextual changes in the society and economy.
In the case of eugenics, we don't need to conjure such wild hypotheses about what would happen, because we've repeatedly seen what happens when that idea is carried to it's extreme by governments.
But it is a horror now that we've seen a few genocides, which is why it shouldn't be compared to something of a completely different kind, like the minimum wage.
Instead, compare it to wars - which are far closer in terms of the harms they cause - and have also received moral support from economists.
> A seriously high minimum wage ($100,000/year for example; no other policy changes) would probably lead to a period of horror and mass unemployment.
This is reductio ad absurdum, since the min wage wouldn't go that high without major structural and contextual changes in the society and economy.
In the case of eugenics, we don't need to conjure such wild hypotheses about what would happen, because we've repeatedly seen what happens when that idea is carried to it's extreme by governments.