Map 414 DNA - Eugenics

Eugenics

Eugenics by its very nature was insane and yet its sole purpose was to rid the world of those with a potential for insanity.

Harry H Laughlin created the program bringing about the 1933 Nuremberg Racial Hygiene Laws. A particular favourite of Hitler. Why doesn't that surprise me. He is described as a racist and anti-Semitic.

Laughlin considered degenerates with mental health problems including epilepsy to have no value and they should be sterilized. He himself got late onset epilepsy, too late for his own sterilization. He married but did not have children. I wonder if he knew of his condition or is the world just lucky not to have to contend with his offspring.

He was born on 11^th, March, 1880 giving him a nine star ki of:

1 + 8 + 8 + 0 = 17 = 1+ 7 = 8 11 – 8 = 3

Month March in a three year = 4

Position of the month number in chart is S.E. 4

Nine star Ki 3 – 4 – 4 DNA letters ATT

The University of Heidelberg in 1936 gave Laughlin an honorary degree for his work with racial cleansing. This was highly reported in newspapers and thankfully that brought the Americans to their senses, realizing how closely they had become associated with Nazi's. The program was considered to have no merit and was closed.

Thank God for that ridiculous degree because its knock on effect closed the eugenics program for good. Thank God for strong women like Rosa Parks who brought about the beginning of the end of racism.

Nazi Germany's racially based policies were supposed to improve the race through eugenics. Laughlin felt there were too many people who where not worthy of having a life and he targeted those people, criminals, degenerates, feeble minded people, homosexuals, idle, insane or weak, all perfect for elimination in order that they do not pass on their genes. Sterilised or killed under the euthanasia program. It was considered to be the more humane thing to do, to destroy sick, weak and deformed children.

The law for the prevention of hereditary disease of 1933 required Doctors to report all illness that was hereditary and patients known to have them. Resulting in over 400,000 people being sterilized against their will.

This is a classic case of the shadow looming large over your life. You become a eugenics expert deciding who should not be allowed to procreate or live only to find the thing you shout loudest about becomes the thing you have yourself. In his case epilepsy. In Hitler's case the potential for blindness.

I once had a beautiful black toy poodle. Loved by all, she was divine. After a few months it was clear she had some problems with her health. She was badly bred in a puppy farm and I did not find out about her health until it was too late. She slowly went blind. She had epilepsy, a brain tumour and a condition known as Progressive Retinal Atrophy. If your dog has this condition it will go blind, without exception. My dog did just that. Poodles can also be prone to Cushings disease which can be detected  through DNA testing.

She was still a delight, she was blind but her other senses became stronger and she could run like the wind around the garden provided nothing was out of place. Her ears flying behind her she was such fun to be with. I can honestly say I would like to have another poodle but next time I will have a cross breed. Perhaps a Maltipoo. A Maltese Terrier and a poodle cross. Or a Bolonoodle, a Toy Poodle and Bolognese cross.

I would never have gotten rid of my dog because she was ill. Everything comes to us for a reason and she certainly taught us a great deal about health, understanding and love.That said I could not justify getting another with the potential for PRA and would use dogs that had been DNA tested before breeding. I would not willingly choose to let my dog have a condition it does not need to have which will cause so much pain. It pains me to think of this as eugenics for dogs. I choose to assess the situation and therefore it is my choice not to produce a dog with the potential for horrendous health problems, but I would not dispose of one that was born with them. I cannot help but think avoidance is a good thing for dogs. What of humans.

It is a very fine line before you begin to feel that horrid sense of Laughlin/Hitler behaviour.

I have given my DNA to The BioBank they can do what they wish with it except reproduce me. (I don't suppose they would want to). I feel it is my duty to give a reputable company my DNA details so that we can benefit mankind in the future. I wonder if we should consider blood tests for certain conditions that can make potential parents aware of the problems they could have should they have a child together. If both parents have a marker for a serious condition I cannot believe they would not want to be aware of it. Having said that if they only have one marker and the potential risk has been reduced would they still take that risk. Its all about choice.

I feel it might be a good idea for our DNA to be taken at birth. Ten percent of births are said to register a man as the father who biologically is not related to them. That is unfair and unjust and a simple test would expose this problem. A child has a right to know who his or her parents are. It would also work as a record for children who come forward saying a person is their biological parent, if the details of their DNA are on file their questions can be answered. 

We could be on record and cures for various illnesses may be easier to track this way. Your DNA cannot be used in any other way than as a record to build up for the future. It could be voluntary but it could also be beneficial to you in the long run if you can check out both partners DNA. Children often arrive unexpectedly so not all circumstances would be conducive to testing.

In my opinion everybody who has arrived on Earth has a right to live their lives as happily as they can. We all have mutations to our genes. I have two of my own that I am aware of and probably many more I am not aware of. None of us are born perfect we are working our way towards perfection and judging by the state of the world at the moment we have a long way to go. Learning to love each other as we are is probably a better program than eugenics. Lets start today and love our neighbors. Embrace our differences. Human beings can never conform to a standard, that would be too dull for words. Know that your life serves a purpose or you would not be here.

One mans choice of a perfect human being is another mans worst nightmare, we can only make choices for ourselves. I hope my next dog is lucky enough to have good health but if she isn't we will embrace her and give her the best life she can have. x

Having written this I decided to have a look on stumbleupon to see if eugenics was listed and was horrified to find it is raising its ugly head once more. Horrifying and disgusting to think that the people we put in charge end up trying to dispose of what they consider to be lesser people than themselves. Based on their behavior they should decide to dispose of themselves first and the world might be a better place. My excuse is I am a Pisces with rose tinted glasses and simply cannot begin to believe this sort of thing would go on in this time and space. Have we learned nothing from the past, are we doomed to repeat it, over and over again. Very sad indeed. Love yourself and perhaps others will love you too. Go in peace. 

I often joke that Doctors never listen to a word we say but can't wait to put everyone on statins. I think it's their way of not having to pay our pensions. Yikes many a true word said in humour. x