We forget, after the Holocaust, how respectable eugenics thinking was. And, while it had support across the political spectrum, it was an impeccably progressive cause. Central planning was going to create better babies just as it was going to create a better everything else. The "chaos" of allowing people to breed every which way was as offensive—and as great a barrier to the Glorious Future—as the "chaos" of the market of rampant capitalism.
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