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Someone called it "soft eugenics" and that makes the most sense to me. It's probably too much bad press and effort to do the old school active eugenics of preventing undesirable peoples from reproducing. So instead you remove health and safety services so "nature" will take care of them. While you simultaneously make it "easier" for the others to reproduce by handing out benefits and preventing birth control.
I'm sure that makes sense to the "utilitarian" crowd or whatever they are called, that believe that the goal of humanity's survival against whatever hypothetical future scenario they think of justifies any means today. Well, except to those who paid attention in biology and know that diversity is actually our best strategy to do just that.
I get why that term is used, but eugenics is eugenics. At least soft eugenics has the word in it, but it really isn't soft it's just normal eugenics. I can't wait for them to rebrand labor camps as soft prisons or whatever because technically the people there aren't prisoners so they can call it something else.
I agree, but also something can be said about there being different levels of intensity. Like prisons, there is gradation in the regime. You might need a different prison for hardened criminals constantly trying to break out and elderly criminals who long gave up on ever getting out and just watch tv all day. This being called soft eugenics doesn't make it less eugenics, it has the word in it and you could argue there is a difference between this and hard eugenics where you actually slaughter people with 'undesirable' traits. Not saying there is good eugenics and bad eugenics, but i guess i were a victim I rather go through soft eugenics than just be executed on sight.
It's like first vs second degree murder. It soundsless intense to the jury, but if you're the victim... you're still dead.