dysgenic

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We use it deliberately, and by using it we mean to intimate that we do not think enthusiasm is an adequate substitute for knowledge, in anyone who assumes to pass judgment upon a measure as being eugenic or dysgenic--as likely to improve the race or cause its deterioration.

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  1. adjective Relating to or causing the deterioration of hereditary qualities in offspring.

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  • Intelligence doesn't seem to be adaptive in an advanced society, and the indicators are all pointing towards a dysgenic future. —  Gelf Magazine
  • "Give dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization." —  Capitol Hill Coffee House
  • Sanger said, "I believe that now, immediately there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them." —  feminine-genius
  • [2] The advances of modern medicine and social welfare systems might also be postulated as dysgenic because they may keep people alive who in earlier days might not have survived to reproduce. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • We use it deliberately, and by using it we mean to intimate that we do not think enthusiasm is an adequate substitute for knowledge, in anyone who assumes to pass judgment upon a measure as being eugenic or dysgenic--as likely to improve the race or cause its deterioration. —  Applied Eugenics
 

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