Just because some random psychology graduate believes China is undertaking a massive eugenics operation doesn't mean I'm about to do so. I have a mind of my own, and I'm perfectly capable of making the distinction between the manufacture of human beings and simply morally reprehensible governmental policy.
I'm not saying eugenics is inherently immoral, I'm saying China is an incredibly patriarchal and hierarchical society that unquestionably favors men. That is immoral, and that is the root of the problem. Eugenics is just another cop-out of an argument thrown around by idiots who want to cling to their shitty religious beliefs, and blame science for everything because they don't understand it and because it challenges their beliefs.
I mean seriously, the guy that wrote the article has absolutely no problem referring to people as "human capital", as if this is a good thing, and in the same breath can describe how women have been oppressed in Chinese society for a thousand years without even realizing the problem with that.
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