Table of Contents: 1. birth of eugenics 2. early practices 3. in america 4. good vs. evil 5. the holocaust 6. death of eugenics 7. slow return 8. conclusion 9. further reading Discussion Talk about the goods and bads of eugenics. Will it guide our future toward perfection, or rather toward corruption? For thousands of years, man has used various ways to perfect livestock and animals. Breeding is essential for farmers to produce the best of the best. It is difficult to come across a domesticated animal whose characteristics have not been influenced by humans. We have taken advantage of selective breeding in animals to produce great results; why don't we do the same with ourselves? If we could somehow control what characteristics our future generations possessed and created a close-to-perfect race, our lives would surely be much better. By simply choosing with whom we breed, we could possibly eradicate undesirable qualities such as alcoholism, epilepsy, and serious deformities. Think it's too good to be true? Well, in the early part of the century, scientists were seriously looking into this path toward perfection, also known as Eugenics. The following section will go more in depth on the subject of eugenics, exploring its positive and negative effects.

If we could somehow control what characteristics our future generations possessed and created a close-to-perfect race, our lives would surely be much better. By simply choosing with whom we breed, we could possibly eradicate undesirable qualities such as alcoholism, epilepsy, and serious deformities.

Think it's too good to be true? Well, in the early part of the century, scientists were seriously looking into this path toward perfection, also known as Eugenics. The following section will go more in depth on the subject of eugenics, exploring its positive and negative effects.