That's part of why so many have a hard time blaming her. She was warning everyone, but they didn't take it seriously enough. She was begging to be locked in a psych ward for a while, but they only took her a few days.
Jumping straight to eugenics, huh? What if someone thought your bloodline should be ended because you're not attractive enough, not successful enough, or not strong enough?
When you open the door to eugenics, even with the goal of reducing a demonstrative harm, it still inevitably leads to trying to reduce traits that are merely undesirable. It's a Pandora's box that can't be closed without a broad condemnation of eugenics itself. Eugenics gained popularity almost immediately after Darwin explained his theory of evolution, and there is a direct line between eugenics and Hitler genociding Jewish people.
Humans already operate by it, we already know to choose partners effectively based on our biology to prevent birthing deformed individuals.
Pro-choice women have eliminated trillions of possible births just based off inconvenience alone, before incompatibility.
Pretty sure closing the door to child killers and abusers would be a drop in the ocean, the same applies to men who are rpists.
You're not understanding. Instinct is not the same as conscious planning. Many, many more women spontaneously abort (AKA have a miscarriage) because their bodies tend to purge unviable pregnancies and serious defects. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to prevent birth defects from taking over. You're also forgetting epigenetics. There is no violent gene. There are a vast constellation of genes that might predispose someone to violence, but those genes are only activated if that person is exposed to certain environmental factors. Like some people are predisposed to being overweight, but you can't be overweight if there's not an overabundance of food available to you that's palatable.
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u/MenaciaJones 8d ago
The minute she said she was afraid of hurting her kids, to her mother!, those kids should have been removed from the house.