Eugenics is underrated

I don't mean Eugenics as it was practiced - based on race. But really, the idea of trying to produce "better" people through breeding could have at least some merit.

After all, we've been doing it for centuries, selecting for the ore athletic, taller, better endowed (evil smirk) individuals. We don't call it eugenics, we call it looking for a hot guy/girl, but it's still selecting for certain traits, some of them genetic.

So why not do the same with non-physical traits? There's probably at least some genetic component to aggression, for example. So why not remove aggressive individuals from the gene pool? I'd aim for stupid people too, but for the most part they sort themselves out. See the Darwin Awards for how.

We have what, 6 billion people on the planet? Or is it 7 billion now? We don't need that many people. Eventually we're going to hit the carrying capacity of Earth; in fact, and since most agriculture nowadays is done with fertilizers derived from petroleum products, we might already be over the carrying capacity of the Earth as it will exist when we run out of gas. So why not, if I may, kill off the extras now? Not too many, but the gang members who spend most of their lives in jail, the murderers and rapists - who needs 'em?

Yes, yes, you all hate me for being a moral sinkhole, believe me I hate me too right now. I ran out of caffeine, and this is what happens. Still, think about it. India, China, both overpopulated nations already and still growing. China's already trying to do the whole population control thing, but it's not working out too well for them. Eventually this is going to be a problem, quite soon in fact based on the growth we've seen in the past centuries. And the answer will not be the usual "expand, build new homes, repeat", nor will Mars hold the answers. So what are we going to do when there's no more room?

There are those we could do without, and I'd much rather see them die than see people starve. Jails are more consistently filled with people who do not benefit society, whereas the poor are more diverse in their abilities and united only by their bad luck of being born into the wrong place in life.

Justifications for evil do not justify evil. We need to hold our moral codes first, as their most of what keeps us in a functioning society. Still, I've half convinced myself that at some point this may be necessary. If push comes to shove, I know who I'd push off first. And now excuse me I need caffeine.