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EPISODE · Oct 1, 2020 · 32 MIN

Three Generations of Imbeciles

from Constitution Thursday · host Dave Bowman

In  the mid 1990’s Kahn Noonien Singh, a genetically superior and  engineered  superman conquered nearly a quarter of the Earth, putting it  under his tyrannical thumb. He and others like him were the result of  generations of genetic engineering and selective breeding that failed to  consider the element of human nature. You might think, “Dave, that’s science fiction, nothing like that could ever really happen, at least not here.” And  while it’s easy to imagine some regimes in the 20th Century choosing to  eliminate “undesirables from their midst,” it isn’t always comfortable  to find out that until 1974, some States had laws on their books allowing for the same thing to happen. Oh… and the United States Supreme Court had upheld those laws as Constitutional…

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