Pity they don't do the same here

[lukemg]

DNA database - clears as many people as it convicts + it only indicates presence in a location not always the time of that presence. It's not perfect but it's much better than what used to be available....
Reality is that we need plenty of people being born in this country to support the ageing demographics (see Japan for why this is a problem). It's either immigration or more kids, reality is a combination of the 2.
THE PROBLEM is turning these people into productive members of society and that's what we should focus on.

[Mason Boyne]

Eugenics is all very well (Well it isn't really, it's abhorrent!) but quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[amcdonald]

Can't we just outsource all the chavs to India

[MarillionFan]

Can't we just outsource all the chavs to India

Nah. The Indians are far to educated to be chavs.

How about Scotland?

[EternalOptimist]

We have an anti-eugenics program in this country.
The wasters are paid to breed and run riot and the hard workers are having less and less kids, and agonise about how much rent to charge them

[original PM]

Yes as is always the question when these discussions come up - who gets to play God and how does anyone control and monitor that.

Anyone in a position of power who is able to make these decsions will always use it to their advantage.

[MarillionFan]

Yes as is always the question when these discussions come up - who gets to play God and how does anyone control and monitor that.

Anyone in a position of power who is able to make these decsions will always use it to their advantage.

Are you talking about RealityHack?

I concur.

[Old Greg]

'More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children.'

link

There would be less feral kids running around...!

The preferred form is 'fewer' not 'less'. Perhaps we should remove you from the gene pool.

[MarillionFan]

The preferred form is 'fewer' not 'less'. Perhaps we should remove you from the gene pool.

Sounds like a threat.

[Churchill]

<advocate mode on>

We already do Eugenics in this country courtesy of the amniocentisis test and associated abortions - is that acceptable ?

</ advocate mode off>

That's complete bollocks. The amniocentisis test is there to give the parents a choice, not a third party.

Good troll though.