Eugenics

            “…In the city of New York, and elsewhere in the United States, there is a native American aristocracy resting upon layer after layer of immigrants of lower races…[who] have nearly succeeded in destroying the privilege of birth.” In the analysis of social inadequacy in the United States, completed in 1922, the level of social insufficiency is documented at it’s highest in immigrant groups entering the United States in large numbers, therefore extending the “brute strength of the unthinking herd…[and] impair the progress of a community, as disease or wounds cripple an individual.” Francis Galton Hereditary Genius argues that “if the hindrances to the rise of genius, were removed from English society as completely as they have been removed from that of America, we should not become materially richer in highly eminent men.”

The process of eugenics is an attempt to regain the eminence and genius that the United States was founded by. At the founding of the United States, the lawmakers were highly educated and therefore capable of governing. In the time of eugenics, the excessive population of the incapable hinders the growth and positive progression experienced in previous times, as the accumulating population of the inept have “[developed] a tendency to attack the privilege of intellect and deprive a man of the advantages of an early and thorough education.” Through the simplification of American behavior and language, which is no longer in sync with traditional English as spelling has been significantly minimize, the social standard once upheld by American society has been drastically debased as a result of excessive immigration by populace who have been unable to assimilate to the norm of American social order, in addition to those who are unable to preserve this standard through inadequacies due to inheritance. By limiting the possibility of additional defectiveness through eugenics, the number of prominent members in American society inevitably increases, which fosters advantageous development.

The practice of eugenics does not specifically violate the United States Constitution and can only be deemed as an issue in regards to personal ethics. Because the expression of morality of an individual cannot be illicit under the United States Constitution, which protects the freedom of speech of it’s citizens, and freedom of thought is a given, though most people choose to ignore this, personal opinion can be disputed but never ascertained to be iniquitous. One could argue that the lack of controlled breeding used to benefit the population can be considered unethical, and one should attempt to benefit society instead of impeding it’s progression. The ambiguous nature behind social philosophy, as illustrated in eugenics, allows it to be interpreted in various ways, debated, disputed and questioned but, like any opinion, it can never be judged to be wrong.