Three Generations of Imbeciles
from Constitution Thursday Hosted by 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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