“One of the effects of civilisation is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.”
(Francis Galton, 1865)
As Francis Galton said, the civilisation is capable to diminish the natural selection, and preserve lives, not weakly lives, just lives. This is one of the best characteristics that Social Catholic Teaching has introduced into the society, the capacity to value a live and preserve everyone’s live.
However, over Human’s history, there was a sector of the society that have some awful ideas and principles to establish who is better for improving society. Not only to establish, also to decide who should live and who should be killed. …show more content…
According to Sharon M. Leon in his essay: “Beyond Birth Control: Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States, 1900-1950”, the principle of this ideology is differentiating between biologically superior and inferior individuals and fighting for public policy measures such as sterilization, sexual segregation, anti- miscegenation statutes, and immigration restriction to discourage the reproduction of the inferior—new immigrants, the mentally ill, the impoverished, and those with substance abuse …show more content…
Then, in 1862, the well-known social Darwinism, arises through the essay “First Principles” of Herbert Spencer.
It was in 1883, with Galton, when the word eugenics was used to explain two concepts inside the Social Darwinism: the selection of some human groups (those that are more beneficial for the society) and the segregation of those who do not comply with the physical or intellectual conditions required (in other words, the segregation of those groups that weren’t accepted due to race, religion, or illness).
Modern Eugenicists and Social Darwinism’s defenders find Ironic that human beings pay attention to the pedigrees of their animals while they don’t care about the abilities or possible benefits that their children will have applying the new scientific
(Francis Galton, 1865)
As Francis Galton said, the civilisation is capable to diminish the natural selection, and preserve lives, not weakly lives, just lives. This is one of the best characteristics that Social Catholic Teaching has introduced into the society, the capacity to value a live and preserve everyone’s live.
However, over Human’s history, there was a sector of the society that have some awful ideas and principles to establish who is better for improving society. Not only to establish, also to decide who should live and who should be killed. …show more content…
According to Sharon M. Leon in his essay: “Beyond Birth Control: Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States, 1900-1950”, the principle of this ideology is differentiating between biologically superior and inferior individuals and fighting for public policy measures such as sterilization, sexual segregation, anti- miscegenation statutes, and immigration restriction to discourage the reproduction of the inferior—new immigrants, the mentally ill, the impoverished, and those with substance abuse …show more content…
Then, in 1862, the well-known social Darwinism, arises through the essay “First Principles” of Herbert Spencer.
It was in 1883, with Galton, when the word eugenics was used to explain two concepts inside the Social Darwinism: the selection of some human groups (those that are more beneficial for the society) and the segregation of those who do not comply with the physical or intellectual conditions required (in other words, the segregation of those groups that weren’t accepted due to race, religion, or illness).
Modern Eugenicists and Social Darwinism’s defenders find Ironic that human beings pay attention to the pedigrees of their animals while they don’t care about the abilities or possible benefits that their children will have applying the new scientific