I’d say there’s a difference between assessing people’s fitness to have children, and their fitness to raise children. The latter is a lot less eugenics-related, and clearly necessary in some form to protect children from being abused by their parents.
Though of course it isn’t always done perfectly or even well.
What does the parental test of this story have to do with eugenics then?
As I understand eugenics, it’s all about ensuring babies with “correct” genes are born and babies with “wrong” genes aren’t, so yes, preventing pregnancies or births seem to be at the heart of eugenics.
And doesn’t seem to directly appear in this story.
Yes, I believe so. Are you implying there’s some sort of contraception involved in this case?
These competence tests are being used on Danish parents as well, just to be clear. The law mentioned in the article is one that exempts the Inuit from being tested under the same conditions as other citizens in the kingdom.
To be clear, nobody is forbidding anyone from giving birth based on these tests.
All together now: there are no paradoxes in quantum mechanics
TBF imaginary time is a math trick and not something that actually progresses. It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.
Absolutely. Both me and my siblings. My parents were in an okay spot at this point, but they supported us to do far better.
Times were pretty borked compared to now, at least in this country.
I won an Xbox 360 a long time ago from a Coca Cola competition. You had to use codes from the bottle caps and then quickly answer some quiz questions correctly. But you had unlimited tries. So I just kept clicking random answers quickly until I got all questions right at a ridiculously low time.
Good times. Borrowed Guitar Hero, LA Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum and Red Dead Redemption at the library, had a blast.
Neat! Didn’t know that.
How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?
Possibly. I can’t come up with any major results that wasn’t either logic, engineering or tradition. But it’s an interesting question. What might count as science before then?
The UN is more a place to talk with your enemies than with your friends, and getting the chance to sit at a table with people you disagree with rather than fighting each other is great.
If there are any Palestinians left to disagree with.
Original from Perry Bible Fellowship: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/one-more-day/
Weird that the text was re-written, I wonder if the comic was somehow translated and translated back to English?
I guess that’s the joke - this is so stupid and obviously won’t work, but that perspective is subverted when it turns out to actually work, causing humour.
I quite like it.