Re: Armed to the Teeth, and Free by Stephen P. Halbrook

Cynthia (cyn386@flash.net)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:21:15 -0700

> Didn't the Germans try that, too? I guess that eugenics is a
> flexible science, and one is able to choose who is defective, even
> whole groups, arbitrarily.

Under different conditions, different kinds of people end up successfully reproducing than others. If the king executes violent thugs, if fathers don't allow young men who don't have respectable jobs to get near their daughters, and if trouble makers are burnt out of their homes in the middle of winter and end up freezing to death; then it is going to have a certain effect on the long term genetic pool.

> I guess that some people must be unfree for all the free ones to be
> armed to the teeth. In prison or an asylum, or packing. Black or
> white. No middle ground.

Insane violent thugs belong in prison.