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## Eugenics (w/ Review of Kantian Ethics)
- Plato believed there should be a hierarchical society
- What are Eugenics?
- System/Program for which to create a good citizenry for a state
- The government picks who gets to reproduce and with whom
- The citizens are cogs in a machine
- There is no place for disabled people in this system
- Kant would not agree with Plato's version of Eugenics because it involves lying
## Ties between Plato and the Modern World
- Sparta has a sort of Eugenics program, with the goal to conquer
- Hitler developed an Eugenics program for his Third Reich
- Modeled after the Spartan Eugenics program
- Involved a lot of people getting killed by the state
- Do we have Eugenics programs in the US?
- "Designer Babies" using a donor
- Choosing to terminate a pregnancy based on detected defects of the fetus
- Choosing to terminate a pregnancy based on gender of the fetus
- Dating sites
- Vaccines
- Sperm Bank Donation Requirements
- Gifted Program
- Performance Enhancing Drugs
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