It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole. : If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker argues for sterilizing those with hereditary diseases unless churches take over their care, framing it as humane.
- In plain terms
- Sterilize the sick unless churches care for them.
- What can you take from it?
- State should control heredity unless churches step in.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should the state control reproduction?
- How should society care for the disabled?
Another view
This devalues human life based on genetic conditions.
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