Lucius Chiaraviglio  wrote:

> john.wilkins{at}bigpond.com (John Wilkins) wrote:
> >[. . .]
> >There are two broad kinds of eugenics, and they both suffer from a moral
> >problem. There is the positive eugenics of Hitler - culling and
>                        ^^^^^^^^
> >sterilising the "undesirables" to protect the purity of
the racial type
> >(a form of typology that biology long ago abandoned); and the negative
>                                                                ^^^^^^^^
> >eugenics of Fisher and Leonard Darwin - promoting the reproductive
> >fecundity of the "desirable" through public incentives or through
> >selective breeding. [. . .]
> 
>       Minor quibble:  aren't "positive" and
"negative" reversed here?
> Hitler wanted to remove "undesirables" (removal is usually
thought of as
> "negative", regardless of moral aspects); the others wanted
to encourage more
> growth of "desirables" (this is usually thought of as
"positive", regardless
> of moral aspects).

Yes, I screwed up. Kevles has them the way you put it (p85 and note).
-- 
John Wilkins
"Listen to your heart, not the voices in your head" - Marge Simpson
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