Dear Church of Satan:
Eugenics is a COS pipe-dream. Anyone who has ever attempted
a few statistical simulations knows that eugenics can't work.
There are too many genes out there--even within the individual.
Never mind entropy; what do you think a gene is? It's connected
to reproduction. Do you think it can just go away? Have you worked
out what would happen even if you succeeded in killing off 99.9% of
humyns? I mean have you worked it through in a statistical simulation from
generation to generation? Lewontin has and we pointed you toward him: why
don't you get it?
85% of genetic variation would still be present if we killed off everyone in the planet except for the tiny Kikuyu tribe of East Africa. That's less than 0.1% of the world population, because 0.1% would be over 5 million people. Do you read anything besides LaVey? Not In Our Genes, R.C. Lewontin et. al., (NY: Pantheon Books, 1984), p. 126)
Do you understand what I just said? What don't you get? Tani [since purged by COS--2005] replies that we share genetic commonalities with monkeys. That was her reply last time I raised this. The point is not what we share as humyns amongst ourselves or with monkeys. The point is eugenics cannot work. [Added in 2005: Both statements about monkeys sharing overlap with humyns and the fact that eugenics can't work can be true, so it's a red herring to talk about monkeys.]
The only thing eugenics does is inflame the stupid white herd against Abenaki Indians, Blacks etc. and create more Hobbessian behavior. The same with the stupid LaVey line on crime--another guaranteed failure. It seems like your recruiting strategy is to shoot for right-wing Christians.
So why does the COS stick to this idea and defend it as one of its five main points? It's a holdover from Nazi Christianity. When LaVey wrote about it, did he ever defend it? I read gobs and gobs of COS stuff, but there is no actual REFERENCE to anything scientific on eugenics. Yet, there has been tons of material documenting its history and scientific impossibility. We at MIM refer you to books such as Not In Our Genes and Dialectical Biologist actually written by biologists and you folks go right on saying the same old crud on cue from the herd. That right there is the hint that COS has failed to escape Christianity.
Eugenics is the PERFECT Nazi pipedream, because it cannot work; yet it generates strife. Notice I did not even raise whether you would kill off the correct 99.9% of us. Any huge plan like that if it is not just a pipe-dream has mega implementation problems. Yet, even if it succeeds in zooming in on protecting one chosen group, it cannot work, because its premise is flawed.
Student uncovers records of Vermont eugenics project
August 7, 1999
Web posted at: 8:55 AM EDT (1255 GMT)
BOSTON (AP) -- A doctoral student has uncovered a dark secret in Vermont's past: Scientists in the 1920s and '30s had an active eugenics plan to eliminate the state's "degenerate" bloodlines and replenish "old pioneer stock."
In a book to be published later this year, Nancy Gallagher details the plan called the "Vermont Eugenics Survey."
The 12-year survey, developed by an independent team of social scientists, studied "good" and "bad" families in the state and listed those which it determined needed to be eliminated, Gallagher told The Boston Globe for a story in Saturday's editions.
The report was circulated among policymakers at the time and led to the passage of a 1931 sterilization law. "
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