Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) wrote:

"Anyway, check that term ‘by the careful selection of parents'. Why is that plural? I mean, is it wrong if you, or Lynn, had decided to pick someone else instead of each other, because they felt the other person would be a better parent to their potential offspring?"

"No."

"Meaning that if you each made your own decision and chose someone on that basis who was willing to go along, then there is no problem then, correct?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Now, that term ‘selection of parents'. In this case, what I mean by a ‘eugenics' program is where someone else makes a decision about the type of children other people might have. Either because they don't like the possible outcome which results from someone else's having children, or they want to use other people as the equivalent of breeding animals. Understand?"

"Yes."

"This means those people are essentially property of whoever is doing this. I believe that human beings are not property. Even convicted criminals have human rights, curtailed to the extent necessary to prevent them from continuing to practice their trade on others, up to and including their execution. If human beings are not property, then such actions are wrong without their consent, freely given without coercion. Understand?"

"Yes."

- Dr. Hugo Sign and George Green in Paul Robinson's The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts