Eugenics is a social philosophy that had its origin in the late nineteenth century and is closely related to the theory of social Darwinism, which is based on the survival of the fittest (natural selection), adapted to what is the evolution of the society.
The bases of eugenics are based on improving the human race, by manipulating the hereditary characteristics of a person in order to create a stronger individual, without diseases, malformations, an intelligent person; In some cases the practice of this can take more extreme paths, an example of this would be mass murder, this is carried out in order to eliminate individuals who do not comply with a stereotype of a perfect physical and mental man, another method is slightly less radical is non-procreation with those individuals who do not meet the standards. One of the most important and remembered events of eugenics is the mass extermination that the Nazis led to all the individuals they did not consider ideal, murdering more than 6 million Jews.
At present eugenics is applied in daily life, the use of this ranges from Amniocentesis (common prenatal test) where the amniotic fluid is extracted to rule out chromosomal and genetic defects, to artificial selection, where the phenotypes of organisms are selected for modify hereditary characteristics that are desired, leading to the evolution of the species selected according to the needs of being human.
Eugenics is usually justified on the argument that they save the resources of nations, since they avoid and prevent the birth of children with malformations and hereditary diseases, while on the other hand those who oppose this philosophy consider it unethical because they do not can play God.
