• PugJesus@piefed.socialM
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    9 days ago

    Back when eugenics was all the rage.

    Funny enough, even if racial purity wasn’t all the rage, and if they had the tools of modernity to determine whether a gene was associated with a trait instead of just “Welp, hopefully this isn’t just an expression of the environment (snip snip)”, eugenics of such a broad-spectrum application rarely works out because of the complexity of genes (and the long maturation time of human beings making resulting problems potentially unclear for decades). See: the many, many health problems of ‘purebred’ dog breeds.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Same country that said let old and vulnerable die of COVID in 2020 rather than suffer a mild inconvenience.

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      5 days ago

      You’re not swedish I guess? A lot of the elderly died as a result of private care not equipping the caretakers with sufficient means to protect them. It was not the fault of the COVID strategy but of the private companies.

      There’s plenty of information about this.

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    8 days ago

    Well maybe not as much ‘we need to keep Swedes pure’ as ‘fuck you shouldn’t have offspring’. Which is no less worse obviously but 🤷